Surgical Services Manager – Quality, Resus & ECU

We are seeking an exceptional and experienced healthcare leader to join our Surgical Services Leadership Team as Surgical Services Manager – Quality, Resuscitation & Enhanced Care Unit (ECU) .

This is a senior leadership role responsible for providing clinical, quality and operational leadership across the Operating Theatre Department and Enhanced Care Unit, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality peri-operative care.

Working in partnership with the Surgical Services Manager – Clinical Operations, you will hold joint accountability for the overall performance, safety, quality, workforce and operational delivery of the theatre and ECU service. You will lead the Quality, Resuscitation and Enhanced Care portfolio while contributing to the strategic direction and ongoing development of Surgical Services.

The successful candidate will provide leadership for clinical governance, patient safety, risk management, quality assurance, education and workforce development across the peri-operative pathway. You will be instrumental in driving a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring lessons learned from incidents, complaints, audits and patient feedback are translated into improvements in practice and patient outcomes.

A key aspect of this role is maintaining organisational leadership and accountability for resuscitation services. You will oversee emergency preparedness, resuscitation training, compliance, standards and assurance processes, ensuring the organisation maintains the highest standards of patient safety and emergency response.

You will also provide leadership for the Enhanced Care Unit and play a central role in its ongoing development, including supporting the planned expansion of enhanced care services and the future development of a High Dependency Unit (HDU). Working alongside clinical and operational colleagues, you will ensure services are appropriately structured, resourced and developed to meet the needs of patients and the organisation.

Joint Leadership and Accountability

• The two Surgical Services Managers will operate as peer leaders, both reporting directly to the Director of Surgical Services.
• Together, they will hold joint accountability for the overall performance, safety, quality, workforce and operational delivery of the Operating Theatre Department and Enhanced Care Unit.
• Each postholder will lead a defined primary portfolio while maintaining sufficient knowledge, skills and oversight of the wider service to provide effective cross-cover and continuity of leadership.
• The postholders will jointly contribute to strategic planning, service development, workforce planning, performance management, clinical governance, financial management, risk management and operational decision-making across the theatre and ECU service.
• Neither postholder will have exclusive ownership of their portfolio. Both managers will be expected to understand the key priorities, risks, workforce issues, performance requirements and ongoing work within the other’s portfolio.
• During annual leave, sickness, vacancy, resignation or any other absence, the remaining Surgical Services Manager will assume responsibility for the absent manager’s portfolio in addition to their own, until appropriate interim or substantive arrangements are in place.
• The postholders will ensure effective handover and maintenance of shared information, reporting and risk-management systems to support continuity.
• No area of theatre operations, quality, governance, resuscitation or ECU should be dependent upon the presence of a particular individual for decision-making or operational continuity.

Professional and Clinical Leadership

• Provide visible senior clinical leadership across the Operating Theatre Department and ECU.
• Work collaboratively with the Surgical Services Manager – Clinical Operations to maintain high standards of patient safety, clinical quality and professional practice.
• Provide professional leadership and oversight to the Peri-operative Lead Practitioner and Practice Development Nurse, ensuring clear accountability and effective delivery of their respective portfolios.
• Provide senior clinical leadership in relation to the management and escalation of deteriorating patients across peri-operative services.
• Maintain organisation-wide leadership and oversight for resuscitation, ensuring appropriate standards, preparedness, training and response arran…