Team Leader - Theatre Robotics

This Team Leader role sits within the theatre team at The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, an independent charity hospital. The post combines clinical and managerial leadership of perioperative care, with a focus on keeping theatre time well used. Its distinct element is a specialist role in robotic surgery, working alongside consultants across the multi-disciplinary team. Candidates need an RN or ODP qualification plus a supervisory or management qualification.

• Provide planned perioperative care for patients needing surgical intervention while managing a team
• Give clinical and managerial leadership so the team delivers effective patient care and theatre use is maximised
• Organise and oversee care in the operating theatre as the specialist robotic surgery lead
• Support perioperative managers with clinical input on theatre utilisation
  
  Co-ordinate and pass on information for intra-operative care, and feed back on patient care and improvement opportunities
• Agree capabilities and competencies with colleagues across general and perioperative practice
• Benchmark current perioperative practice, trends and developments against appropriate standards

• RN or ODP qualification
• Supervisory or management qualification
• Substantial post-registration CPD in management and perioperative subjects

• Working as a perioperative practitioner across multi-disciplinary teams
• Applying clinical reasoning to complex and varied patient case mixes
• Challenging consultants to influence evidence-based practice
• Supervisory experience

• Analysing staff and theatre management problems and devising viable solutions
• Competence across surgical, anaesthetic or post-anaesthesia, management and leadership skills, backed by clinical knowledge

• Mandatory training, including infection control and health and safety competencies