Cath Lab Manager

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1.    Duties and Responsibilities

·       Accountable and responsible for the operational day to day management of the cath labs – paying particular attention to the smooth and effective running of the daily lists.

·       To ensure cancellations are avoided at all costs and that no breach patients are cancelled unless absolutely necessary.

Taking the lead and in conjunction with the Deputy General Manager and Service Leads;

·       Working with cardiology service managers and cath lab co-ordinators to construct balanced and achievable lists.

·       Responsible for the development and planning of the department’s workforce

·       Responsible for overseeing production of reports demonstrating Cath Lab utilisation and efficiency, including the management of the daily calls and cath lab performance spreadsheet.

Management and Leadership

·       Line management responsibilities including recruitment, induction, appraisal, development and retention of staff as well as managing sickness and absence, disciplinary and performance issues that may arise. This needs to be undertaken in conjunction with professional leads.

·       Lead and support organisational change and wider organisation to ensure efficient service delivery and productivity and compliance with Trust and NHS targets; this could include consultation with staff and promoting new ways of working, implementing new policies and procedures.

·       Responsible for developing and motivating staff through effective personal leadership, ensuring views and decisions are communicated both up and down the management structure.

·       Chair disciplinary, grievance and other formal panels, as and when required.

Quality, Risk and Clinical Governance

·       Develop and implement a robust Clinical Governance system within the department, and evaluate its effectiveness.

·       Implement effective risk management strategies within the Department.

·       Contribute to the control of risk and use the incident reporting system, to alert the Trust to incidents or near misses that may compromise the quality of services.

·       Monitor work areas to ensure that they conform to the required Health and Safety standards, in accordance with legislation.

·       Ensure that standards of patient care are in accordance with the Trust’s policies, protocols and guidelines.

·       Identify areas for process redesign and service improvement with the aim of improving and enhancing the patients’ pathway and direct care experience.

·       Encourage and empower all staff to identify aspects of patient care that can be improved.

·       Ensure all staff comply with mandatory training requirements.

·       Promote and support training initiatives for all staff.

Financial Management

·       Manage delegated budget responsibilities for area, ensuring income capture, adherence to agreed budget plans, identifying savings and implementing plans to reduce costs as appropriate.

·       Work with the Finance Manager to ensure budgets are up to date and accurate, identify changes to budgets as required.

·       Identify costs pressures, service development and cost improvement plans, develop business cases to meet requirements and present to local Performance Review Meetings, Clinical Operations Group and Trust Management Executive as required.

·       Ensure compliance with Trust standing financial instructions.

·       To analyse procurement information and use own judgement to manage high value stock

Strategy, Change and Service Improvement

·       To lead on business planning for the cath labs and together with the clinical leads for the respective services, prepare bids for capital expenditure and to ensure that there are detailed plans to replace high value capital items such as X-Ray equipment, EP equipment and Haemodynamic equipment.

·       To oversee delivery of business plans and capital programmes for the cath labs and lead on specific projects within the labs e.g. installation and upgrading of new labs

·       Identify opportunities for service redesign, focusing on a patient centred approach to delivery; work to develop and lead plans to improve and develop services.

·       Participate in Trust and area wide programmes that contribute to the modernisation of patient services.

·       Investigate processes and define root cause problems in order to make service improvements in line with Trust strategy and modernisation initiatives.

·       Act as management lead for the implementation of NSF’s and other initiatives

·       Responsible for the delivery of agreed change and service improvement projects and initiatives.

·       Work with colleagues to assist in the development and implementation of R&D, teaching and training programmes as required.

·       Responsible for regular audit/surveys to support and inform service development.

Information Management

·       To lead on the development of an IT Strategy for Cath Lab.

·       To establish and oversee the production of regular reports showing Cath Lab utilisation, number of cases cancelled, reasons for cancellations / delay, use of high cost consumable eg. stents and such other reports that may be required taking into account demands on the service.

·       To act upon the above reports and in conjunctions with HOS and director of cath labs, change systems and processes to improve where necessary.

·       To use analytical skills and own judgement to decide how to act upon information reports.

·       To continue the work on cath lab information capture and insight production.

Clinical Responsibilities and Patient/Customer Care

·       Providing a visible, accessible and authoritative presence within the department, in whom patients can have confidence and turn to for assistance, advice, support and where appropriate, intervention.

·       Ensure that all complaints are dealt with promptly and satisfactorily, taking corrective action and implementing action plans to avoid recurrence.

·       Developing and supporting clinical leadership at all levels.

·       Participate in the relevant On-Call Rota.

·       Lead the development of clinical practice within the department through research and clinical audit initiatives, ensuring continued clinical effectiveness.

·       Provision of direct patient care as appropriate dependent upon clinical skill set.

·       Coordinate the operational aspects of decisions relating to case cancellations and list changes, in conjunction with the relevant clinicians and operational managers.

Professional Responsibilities

·       Act at all times in a manner that upholds the reputation of the Trust and safeguards the wellbeing and dignity of patients and their relatives

·       Ensure that all staff adhere to Trust policies and protocols and take action where appropriate

·       Ensure that professional standards reach the required levels according to Codes of Professional Conduct/regulatory bodies

Communication

·       Working with the Deputy General Manager to develop a robust communication structure within the Directorate involving the communication of complex information to a variety of different staff groups.

·       Disseminate relevant Trust and Directorate information amongst all cath lab staff.

·       Provide sufficient fora for cath lab staff to allow free flow of ideas and ensure all voices are heard for the overall improvement of the culture within the department.

Policy Development

·       To work with clinical leads to develop, agree and implement standard operating procedures for the department.

·       To ensure that all national and Trust policies are assessed, implemented and maintained in the department.

·       To provide specialist advice on cath lab relates policy.