Team Leader – Scrubs

Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours per week

Are you looking for an exciting and challenging career in Day Surgery Scrub?

Are you are looking for the opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic team at a leading London teaching hospital to develop your existing nursing skills?

If so, please read on as King’s College Hospital wants to invest in YOU!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for highly motivated nurse/ODP to join King’s Day Surgery Theatres Scrub Team, to provide the highest standard of intra-operative care to patients.

We are seeking an experienced scrub practitioner to join our team. Our ideal candidate will need to have extensive General Surgery, Paediatrics and Endoscopy scrub experience. We care for both adult and paediatric patients in the department.

Please note that we undertake terminations of pregnancy and that this is a job requirement within the unit. Any successful candidate will be expected to work within these lists.

You will be responsible for a clinical speciality, manage your clinical workload and resources effectively. You will maintain a high standard of clinical work and expert holistic care to both perioperative patients and their relatives within their care. This role also requires a reassuring manner and the understanding of the rights, dignity and safeguarding of all patients. You will also act as a clinical resource within the unit and across Care Group as necessary and have excellent and efficient scrub skills.

Your role will include ensuring compliance with our clinical governance framework, motivating colleagues, championing service user safety and dignity and driving continuous improvement. The candidate will take direct managerial responsibility for the clinical area in the absence of or as delegated by the Lead Nurse or Service manager.

Furthermore, you will act as a positive role model to junior staff members, will have a team of staff to manage and contribute to developing their skills and competence in theatre.

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Stephanie Musa Job title: Clinical coordinator Email address: [email protected]

Please feel free to make contact for a general discussion about the role. For more information on this post or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Clinical coordinators: Stephanie Musa [email protected] and Jem Bautista [email protected] or our Lead Nurse, Karen Harries [email protected] . Alternatively, you can contact us on 02032997701, 02032992470 or 02032997431.