Job summary
- Main area
- Theatres
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 323-AC8125-SK
- Employer
- Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ashford and St Peters Hospital
- Town
- Chertsey
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 pa inc. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Theatres Operational Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity to join the Theatres team at Ashford & St Peters. You will have the opportunity to be part of the brand new Elective Centre at Ashford Hospital operationalising and managing the theatre footprint across both sites.
Working for the GSACT division, you will be part of a innovative and high performing division that is ACSA accredited and one of the biggest Bariatric services in the country. The division has had great success in HIT lists and Super Clinics. The Urology service have recently started using Aquablation as a extension to our existing Robotic Strategy.Â
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be responsible for the operational management and the effective and efficient delivery of Theatres including managing comms and meetings for estates infrastructure, utilization and productivity, overall governance of theatre booking including 6-4-2 whilst managing and maintaining the existing Theatre Improvement Programme.Â
Working for our organisation
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- On-site Nurseries
- On-site staff cafes
- On-site parking
- Support in career development
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics
Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the JD and PS for further details on the role
Applicants are encouraged to have informal conversations to have further conversations on the role.Â
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Management or equivalent experience
Attitude, Behaviour and Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate Trust Values
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience of managing a range of staff in a major service through cross divisions
- • Excellent managerial, leadership and organisational skills, with ability to motivate and develop a multi-professional approach
- • Experience of working in NHS or public sector experience with Acute sector operational experience
- Performance - RTT/Cancer
- Experience of working with MDT teams
Desirable criteria
- Managing budgets
- Experience of Project Management Change Management
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience to theatres governance, booking 642
- Knowledge of emergency and elective pathways
- • Proven ability to analyse and resolve complex issues.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Excellent interpersonal, negotiating and persuasive skills.
- • Proven ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with a wide range of people and build credibility quickly including report writing, presenting and verbal commuication.
- • Ability to demonstrate good influencing skills and building rapport with individuals -Ability to demonstrate leadership and motivate staff members in a clinical setting and managing challenging situations and conversations
- • Able to work autonomously, collaboratively and as part of a multi-professional team
- • Excellent time management skills -Ability to manage and prioritise conflicting demands
Desirable criteria
- Group facilitation skills and or negotiation and having difficult conversations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vundan Kaneria
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Claire Cunningham - Divisional Director of GSACT
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