Theatre Team Lead

Lead Scrub Practitioner

Lead Scrub Practitioner | Scrub Nurse | Theatres | Southend | £3000 Joining Bonus | Full Time | No Nights.

Spire Wellesley has an exciting opportunity for a Lead Scrub Practitioner, to join our experienced and dynamic team. You will provide exemplary planned care for patients while managing a team. You will also ensure the team delivers effective patient care by providing appropriate clinical and managerial leadership. This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week with on-calls during the week and on weekends. SFA training available.

Spire Wellesley offers comprehensive private hospital services in a comfortable and relaxed environment to patients from across Essex. We believe it's our people that really set us apart, from the very best medical professionals, to our attentive and highly experienced support staff.

The Wellesley has 3 Theatres (2 laminar flow) and an endoscopy unit, a 33 bedded Surgical Ward covering a wide variety of specialties including Orthopaedics, Bariatrics, General Surgery, Vascular, Plastics, Gynae, Ophthalmology, Spinal, Urology and ENT. We have had a recent Theatre refurbishment to further upgrade our theatre environment and bringing cutting edge technology to our hospital.

Duties and responsibilities :

As Lead Scrub Practitioner you will be overseeing a small team and will be supported by both a Theatre Manager and a Deputy as well as a team of other Team Leads. Working as part of this friendly and supportive team you can expect to assist patients undergoing a variety of elective procedures.

You will be passionate about service improvement, driven to succeed within your career. We encourage and reinforce your interest in development and progression and offer fully funded courses whilst being fully supported by your Theatre Manager, Deputy Manager and Senior Management Team.

• Support the Theatre Manger to lead, teach, counsel and appraise staff to ensure development needs are identified and met. Implement personal development plans to meet ongoing development needs.
• Supervise and educate junior staff, RGN's, ODP's and carry out clinical supervision.
• Contribute to the overall advancement of the Operating Department to promote excellence in clinical care.
• Act as a role model, demonstrating high levels of clinical expertise, leading, managing and delivering excellence in clinical care.
• Be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients to ensure delivery of a high standard of care on every shift.
• Assess patient’s health and well-being across a complex and changing caseload.
• Develop care plans that are appropriate to the patient, taking into consideration the care pathway, perioperative risks and their wellbeing.
• Work alongside Theatre Administrator to ensure equipment and implants required for surgeries are booked in a timely manner
• Liaise with Company Representatives as and when necessary to provide support to surgeons and staff

Who we're looking for :

Benefits :

Please see the attached benefits leaflet for more information.