Theatre Practitioner RGN / ODP

The Team Leader will support the Speciality Manager with the operational management of designated theatres. This will include specific budgets, resources and the recruitment and retention of the work force. Ensuring Compliance with Clinical governance and promoting patient safety initiatives.,

• Leading Ophthalmic Theatres for elective and emergency procedures.


• Supporting the senior team in the daily running of the theatre department.


• Engaging with the Theatre Teaching Program for student Nurses and student ODPs as well as supporting newly qualified members of the Theatre Team, working as a mentor and preceptor.


• Ensuring equipment availability for operating lists. Ordering necessary consumable items.


• Ensuring best practice is carried out at all times within the Theatre Department. Upholding trust values and the professional governing body code of conduct.


• Deputising for the Speciality Manager in their absence.


• With support, coordinating the Theatre Department in the Theatre Coordinator's absence.
  
  We are looking to appoint an experienced and enthusiastic Practitioner to assist in leading the Ophthalmic Theatre Team at The Countess of Chester Hospital. The applicant must have good experience and knowledge in these specialties.
  
  The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:


• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds


• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility


• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.


The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.