Job overview

This Team Lead position is based in our specialist Podiatric Surgery Service based at Danetre Hospital in Daventry.  This service provides outpatient appointments, pre and post operative clinics and day surgery to patients in Northamptonshire who have a range of foot and ankle conditions which require a specialist assessment and treatment, including surgical interventions.  The surgery we perform is delivered in day surgery unit at the hospital and we have a day surgery ward adjacent to theatre, with our clinic downstairs.

This role is a hybrid role, encompassing operational leadership for the team as well as being a Senior clinician with the service supporting with appointments and in surgery.  As the Team Lead for this service, you would be managing a range of professionals including Podiatrists, Administrators, Operating Department Practitioners, Nursing and Support staff, as well as working with the Clinical lead and Consultant Podiatric Surgeons in the leadership of the service, supported by a Service Manager.

This role is a permanent role and is for 28 hours per week. This role would suit an experienced Theatre Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner who have the necessary leadership skills and clinical background and represents an opportunity for development for the successful candidate.  Surgical experience and training are essential.

Main duties of the job

 For the full list of main duties, please refer to the job description.

To demonstrate and promote professional leadership and clinical management.

To be accountable for the standards for clinical practice and ensure staff work to those standards.

To demonstrate specialist knowledge within sphere of practice and act as a resource for the department and the Trust (Nursing and/or Podiatric Surgery).

To demonstrate up to date knowledge of professional issues affecting healthcare at national and local levels and to assist in the implementation at a local level.

To monitor clinical and professional issues and report on actions taken to redress unacceptable situations.

 To ensure staff comply with NHFT Health and Safety policies. 

To foster professional relationships with all members of the multi-disciplinary teams.

To monitor and manage the clinical workload to ensure the effective deployment of manpower, taking all possible actions to minimise risk when optimum staffing levels are not sustainable.

To initiate, develop and implement effective methods of care delivery, to include different ways of working and new roles.

To influence and implement local and national Clinical Governance agenda.

To maintain patient and staff confidentiality at all times.

To promote awareness of child protection and vulnerable adult issues referring to NHFT Trust policy and ensure staff undertake safeguarding training at an appropriate level

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.