Band 3 Theatre Service Co-ordinator

We are seeking a Theatre Services Co-ordinator to join the Surgical Theatres team at Solihull Hospital. The role involves supporting the smooth running of theatre services and maintaining a safe, efficient environment for patients and staff. You will need strong organisational, communication, and multitasking skills, with the ability to prioritise work, solve problems independently, and work effectively as part of a team.

You will work in operating theatres supporting surgeries in Colorectal, Urology, Breast, Plastics, and Ophthalmology. The role involves:

Assisting with patient transfers to theatre

Supporting theatre staff and working with housekeeping, decontamination, and portering teams

Monitoring stock and maintaining a tidy environment

Ensuring surgical equipment and instrument kits are available

Working flexibly across the department

Please consider whether you are comfortable working in a surgical theatre environment., Theatre Service Co-Ordinator role is part of the wider theatre team that ensures the efficient, safe delivery of care across the theatre environment. The main duty of this role includes the support, planning and co-ordination of daily theatre lists. Duties also include:

The use of I.T systems to track usage of equipment, stock and accurate records of loan kits

Management of received surgical consumables, performing stock rotation escalating any issues to procurement and surgical teams

Communicating with medical representatives, companies, sterile support services and theatre teams to ensure equipment needs for the department are dealt with

Liaising with outside areas to ensure patients are transferred to theatres in a timely manner, ensuring documentation is completed before arrival into the theatre suite, including the collection of patients

To work collaboratively and flexibly in theatres as a theatre support worker when required

Handling of specimens adhering to local policies, ensuring all are labelled correctly

Involvement in the upkeep of the department reporting of any environmental issues or damage and provide a clean and safe environment for patients and colleagues

To become knowledgeable in the use of multiple theatre surgical devices including table attachments

Competence with the collection of blood products where required for elective and emergency procedures

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

All the above comes with a remuneration package of a Band 3 -- which currently stands at includes a starting salary of 25,760 rising to 27,476 along with benefits. If you'd like to join a caring and nurturing team providing the best care to our patients, we would love to hear from you. You can simply apply via this advert or drop us an email at Connected-Solihull@uhb.nhs.uk and we'll arrange a meeting a tour of the facilities and meeting with the Team.