Anaesthetic Coordinator

Your role at St John of God Murdoch

Your role is critical to the smooth running of our Theatres Department. You will be responsible for managing the daily staffing of each theatre and communicating changes to ensure lists proceed as scheduled with mínimal disruptions and delays, taking action to resolve problems as they emerge.

The Position
- Provide clinical guidance and support.
- Provide all clinical and operational direction to Anaesthetic caregivers on shift, escalating to Perioperative Flow Manager if required.
- Identify and manage any performance and or behavioural issues by Anaesthetic caregivers on shift, escalating to Clinical Nurse Manager for follow up if required.
- Finalise caregiver allocations for the next day and prepare staffing for week ahead from published rosters.
- Manage staffing challenges including sick calls and sourcing casual and Agency staff to fill gaps.
- Direct caregivers to areas of need (e.g. emergencies) in consultation with Perioperative Flow Manager.
- Support the Perioperative Flow Manager to meet demand for cases by sourcing caregivers to staff them, or flexing off, when required.
- During a shift, act as first point of contact for enquiries or issues relating to the operational effectiveness of the department during that shift.
- Conduct regular rounds, checking in with caregivers and providing advice and assistance where appropriate.
- Ensuring theatre teams are updating and maintaining accurate procedure times in webPAS for CCC dashboard.
- Ensure Anaesthetic caregivers complete all duties by the end of the shift.
- Liaise with Team Leaders to ensure breaks are sufficiently covered and to advise of staff movements at end of list
- Deploy caregivers to ensure that Theatre Readiness activities are completed at the end of each list for every theatre.
- Ensure all ACORN and ASCH standards are being met during each shift by ensuring all safety and quality tasks and checks are completed.
- Ensure agreed audit schedule is completed on time.
- Support commitment to Learning and Development by ensuring caregivers are able to attend insevices and mandatory training through appropriate rostering and cover.
- Allocating Discovery Program and new caregivers to scheduled lists.
- Support the Perioperative Services Manager, Clinical Nurse Managers & Perioperative Flow Manager with communications to caregivers in theatres
- Manage daily timesheets for caregivers to complete including validation of sign off times.

Working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary environment you will hold strong organisation, negotiation and communication skills with well-developed relationship management experience and conflict resolution ability. With experience in supervising caregivers you will have a proactive mindset to problem solve.

To succeed you will hold AHPRA Registration as a Registered Nurse or Midwife OR equivalent Anaesthetic Technician qualification, with relevant post registration experience in a anaesthetics perioperative care setting.

Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer you
- Salary: $115,040 to $121,647 (dependant on qualification and pro rata if part time) plus 11% superannuation
- A Part Time position, working 22.5 hours per week
- Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:

- Novated leasing
- work related expenses
- self-education and
- additional superannuation
- A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave & well-being programs
- Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
- Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Innovative Professional Development opportunities
- All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements._

For enquiries contact Melissa Platt, Perioperative Flow Manager, on (08) 94389493.
- Applications Close: 18th April 24_