Team Leader - Theatres (NMC or HCPC Registered)

Leading and coordinating the day-to-day activities within Theatres 24/7 including weekends and bank holidays.

Demonstrating effective and safe decision-making in complex clinical situations.

Taking an active role in all aspects of staff management, including supervision, development, and performance.

Contributing to the continuous improvement of services and patient outcomes

What we offer:

Ongoing professional support from our dedicated Practice Education Team.

Access to continuous training and development opportunities to help you reach your full potential.

The chance to work within a forward-thinking and innovative organisation that values excellence and puts patients at the heart of everything we do.

If you are a confident, motivated professional with strong theatre experience and a passion for leading teams to deliver first-class patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will:

Provide professional and managerial leadership to the clinical/theatre teams within their designated areas.

Provide a highly visible and authoritative presence ensuring the provision of high quality services, responsive to the needs of the patient at the centre of care delivery.

Maintain a visible clinical presence acting as a role model upon whom patients, visitors and staff can rely for support to ensure the fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met.

Support the wider divisional leadership team covering weekends and nights when required to ensure effective and efficient management of services to agreed standards.

Support the Theatre Matrons by leading and developing theatre practitioners their clinical practice and meaningful improvements to patient care.

Manage the department out of normal working hours and deputise for the Theatre Matrons as required.

Expected to on call cover when required to meet the service demand along with bleep holder responsibilities

As a senior member of staff, you will play a pivotal role in delivering safe, high-quality patient care while maintaining strong clinical, leadership, and management skills within a supportive senior team structure.

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.