Sue Wilson

This is my current employment. I returned here on completion of a 13-month secondment to Maternity as their Theatre and Recovery Team Manager (Band 7), covering Maternity Leave.

Duties and responsibilities:

• I work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a busy theatre complex.
• Planning, monitoring, and assessing peri-operative, intra-operative, and immediate post-operative care as a Senior ODP. Providing a high standard of care.
• Daily staff management, allocation and delegation, ensuring safe staffing levels, and maximising theatre efficiency. This involves lots of staff motivation, management, being seen within department, and leading.
• I work with multi-disciplinary teams of doctors, nurses, ODPs, and orderly staff, challenging existing practices while maintaining and enhancing services and standards. For many years, I managed the Anaesthetic Staff's roster via our e-roster system. Ensuring maximum cover within the unit, balancing skill mix and seniority, whilst supporting the staff. Carrying out staff appraisals, managing sickness and absence, managing and dealing with variations in staff performance, and identifying solutions to deliver improvements. Working with the staff to improve compliance in completing daily checks in the anaesthetic rooms. Very good results have been observed.
• Enhance complaint management.
• Stock management, rotation, and ordering. I am able to prepare, store, and administer prescribed drugs in accordance with Trust policies.
• Allocation and monitoring of annual leave.

This was a secondment for 13 months, during which I was able to further develop the skills I had already gained through being a Band 6 in Main Theatres.

Role and duties included:

• Managing the Maternity Theatre (two theatres) and Recovery team.
• Appraisal management
• Theatre list management, overseeing what cases are booked on the theatre lists, ensuring safe staffing for those lists, ensuring equipment needed is present or ordered in advance, multidisciplinary team meetings for high-risk cases, planning the patients' needs and wishes, and overseeing the overall running of the theatres and recovery.
• Delegating work where applicable, organising, and prioritising workloads.
• Stock ordering and rotation, working alongside procurement.
• Monitoring compliance: daily checks, trolley checks, and maintaining this at a high level each month.
• Completion of monthly audits, interpreting, and collating data. Other audits I undertook were for theatre efficiency and the completion of WHO forms in maternity theatres.
• Taking part in the "Manager of the Day" (MOD) for the maternity unit, the aim of the MOD in the maternity unit is to work alongside the Maternity Matron and the Band 7 Labour Ward Coordinator to ensure that the maternity service is continually and consistently operationally safe, effective, and well led, acting as a role model and demonstrating a high level of professionalism, effective communication, and organisational skills at all times. Ensuring that flow across the services is maintained, having an overview of all staff working within the maternity service, identifying, mitigating, and/or escalating any midwifery red flags, redeploying resources to meet service needs, supporting effective communication with women where there are concerns and/or delays in care, proactively supporting staff members to maintain well-being by ensuring breaks are allocated and taken, monitoring sickness, and return to work processes.

I work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a busy theatre complex.

• Planning, monitoring, and assessing peri-operative, intra-operative, and immediate post-operative care as a Senior ODP.
• Providing a high standard of care.
• Daily staff management, allocation and delegation, ensuring safe staffing levels, and maximising theatre efficiency. This involves a lot of staff motivation, management, being seen in the department, and leading.
• Working with multi-disciplinary teams of doctors, nurses, ODPs, and orderly staff, challenging existing practices while maintaining and enhancing services and standards.
• For many years, I have managed the Anaesthetic Staff's roster via our e-roster system. Ensuring maximum cover within the unit, balancing skill mix and seniority, whilst supporting the staff.
• Carrying out staff appraisals. Managing and dealing with variations in staff performance, and identifying solutions to deliver improvements.
• Managing sickness and absence.
• Enhance complaint management.
• Stock management, rotation, and ordering.
• I am able to prepare, store, and administer prescribed drugs in accordance with Trust policies.
• Allocation and monitoring of annual leave.

This is from qualifying as an ODP until I obtained a Band 6 post in 2016. Brief description of your duties and responsibilities:

• Planning, monitoring, and assessing peri-operative, intra-operative, and immediate post-operative care.
• Areas I worked in include Orthopaedics elective surgery and trauma, general surgery, vascular, renal, maxillofacial, urology, ENT, plastics, gynaecology, and emergency theatres. Outside of the theatre complex, my clinical skills take me to work in Maternity, covering elective and emergency cases, X-Ray, MRI, CT, A&E, and attending cardiac arrests as part of the resuscitation team.
• During this time, I have learnt as much as I could clinically, and I have built up my confidence.
• I have worked hard learning as many management skills as I can, and learning how to work with people and manage them. Building good working relationships with other departments, not only for the benefit of the department, but also for the care provided to the patients.

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