Healthcare Play Specialist

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom St Mary's Hospital Full time

Job overview

Clinical Team Lead – Pre-operative assessment and Elective admission

At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we pride ourselves on working together to ensure that our shared vision of Kind, Aspirational, Collaborative and Expert is achieved. We are looking for the right individual to join this dedicated team to drive the vision forward and work as a collaborative part of the pre-assessment and elective admissions department as a Clinical team lead.

With our Pre-Assessment Service based across our three major hospital sites you will provide care for patients from a range of surgical specialities including; Neurosurgery, ENT, Breast surgery, Urology, General Surgery, Gynaecology, Plastic Surgery, Orthopaedics and Hepatobiliary.

Main duties of the job

·Efficiency of the Pre-Operative Assessment (POA) pathway (e.g. minimisation of on the day cancellation in theatre)

· Excellent nursing care and health promotion

·Liaison with secondary and primary care

·Well-led and supported team

·Effective controls in the maintenance of departmental budget

·Implementation of nursing strategy and supporting the Trust/Directorate Objectives

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered nurse or operating department practitioner Current NMC/HP Registration and PIN

Desirable criteria

Management course

Experience

Essential criteria

Minimum of 2 years at Band 6 in Pre Operative Assessment. (POA) Experience of autonomous working in POA. Experience of processes involved in managing a team.

Desirable criteria

Experience of managing change

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

Team leadership. Effective time management Knowledge of relevant national guidelines (e.g NICE).

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of Surgical Pathways

IMPORTANT:

We are conducting interviews virtually and face to face. If the interview is virtual we require candidates to have the camera on during the interview.



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