Overall Responsibility:
Reporting to the Chief Nursing Officer, the successful candidate will manage all the clinical and administrative duties in the Operating Theatre.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supervising theatre staff and their work; including training, mentoring, managing performance and ensuring coverage.
- Participate in formulating operating theatre processes and procedures, budgets, and guiding investments into theatre services
- Ensure safe, efficient and effective perioperative services are provided to patients.
- Ensure efficient scheduling and proper management of the turn-around time.
- Address all issues regarding patient care to ensure all patients / relatives and doctors are satisfied.
- Stewardship of theatre equipment, instruments, and infrastructure, maintaining an inventory, proper usage, storage and ensuring preventing maintenance
- Ensure infection control and prevention measures are adhered to and prevention of surgical site infections.
- Build strong relationships with theatre users, including surgeons and anesthetists.
- Maintain accurate records and registers, including billings, incidents, patient notes and surgical cases
- Take part in surgical procedures.
- Maintenance of a professional, cost-effective theatre service including financial management and business planning.
- Any other duty as may be assigned.
Job Requirements
- BSc Nursing/KRCHN
- Higher diploma in Perioperative Nursing with a valid practicing license from the Nursing Council of Kenya.
- A minimum of one year experience.
- Active BLS & ACLS certification.
Method of Application
- Interested candidates to email their cover letter and detailed curriculum vitae ONLY; including names and contacts of three references, to [email protected] on or before 28th April 2023.
- The email subject line MUST include the position title and Vacancy number being applied for e.g., “ADMINISTRATOR”
- Canvassing of any nature will lead to automatic disqualification
