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Job overview

This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

Are you currently working at a band 6 or above and want a new challenge? Do you have excellent clinical and leadership skills and want to progress?  We would love to hear from you.

We are delighted to be able to offer a position of Hybrid Theatre B7 Senior Sister/Charge Nurse/Principal ODP at the James Cook University Hospital, the largest hospital in the Tees Valley. The operating department has 17 main theatres, 3 day case theatres & provides staffing for 2 obstetric theatres.

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who would like to develop further in Nurse/ODP leadership, work with dynamic teams and improve the patient experience within our theatre department and services supported by theatres. The department’s attendance of adult and paediatric surgical patients is approximately 43,895 per year.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an individual with excellent communication skills, the ability to work well under pressure, and a desire to provide first class service for our patients and clinical teams. You will be self-motivated, well-organised and able to manage competing priorities. Your leadership style will support the on-going development of staff and the service model through transformational change.

The post holder will be expected to have 24 hour responsibility for the Neuro, Spine, Neuro Interventional Radiology & Mechanical Thrombectomy theatre service. You will have the ability to engage clinically with all members of the multi-disciplinary team. You will have in depth proven clinical knowledge guiding the nursing  & ODP team to work within this framework. You will be expected to provide expertise and leadership working clinical 50% of your working hours. You will be expected to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills, along with the ability to sensitively manage change. Experience of elements of the management role such as e-rostering and delivering on patient quality and safety initiatives will support your application. You will be able to demonstrate how you support the delivery of the organisations quality and safety agenda.

Working for our organisation

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.  You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3, 5 and 7.