Cau Team Leader - Maidstone, United Kingdom - Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
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Maidstone, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time CAU Team Leader within Trauma and Orthopaedics, to work across both our Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells sites.


This post forms part of the recruitment programme for the new Kent and Medway Orthopaedic theatre complex at Maidstone Hospital which will provide capacity for an estimated 5,000 procedures per year.

Over the next nine months, the Trust will be recruiting to over 200 new posts to support the Centre.


Once complete, the theatres will expand orthopaedic surgical capacity at MTW and provide increased capacity across Kent, Medway and East Sussex.

This will play an important part in elective recovery and the reduction of patient waiting times across the region. Currently, the build is on track for the opening in March 2024.


You will be highly organised and adaptable and possess experience in administration and leading a team within an acute hospital.

You will need to be able to demonstrate leadership skills as you will be a key point of contact for the pathway coordinators and admin support staff.


As well as leading an admin team, the job will include monitoring all orthopaedic theatre lists, trauma lists, outpatient clinics and fracture clinics; liaising with consultants, nursing teams, physios and operational managers.


A good knowledge of the 18 week pathway and PTL is necessary to fulfill this post with a good understanding of wider NHS relationships between GPs and the Acute NHS providers.


You should be self-motivated and be able to demonstrate good communication and organisational skills, along with a flexible approach to duties.

You will need to be able to work unsupervised and be able to deliver to tight deadlines The applicant should be able to demonstrate an interest to learn new skills.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.


The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust's core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs.

We work from two main clinical sites:
Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury.

Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.


We employ over 6,500 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.


Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.

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