Team Leader

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Team Leader - Neuro Theatres

The closing date is 02 November 2025

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Band 7 Theatre Practitioner with extensive scrub and/or anaesthetic experience to join our dynamic team.

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.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and coordinating the day‑to‑day activities within Neuro Theatres, 24/7 Thrombectomy, and weekday Neuro Radiology Services.

- 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:

- A full and comprehensive orientation package tailored to your individual needs.

- 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.

About us

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high‑quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health‑care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?

- Our values and reputation for outstanding care

- Opportunities to experience a range of specialities

- Career and development opportunities

- Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team

- Research experience and opportunities

- Lovely location and quality of life

- Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 2 November 2025

Interviews are due to be held on 11 November 2025

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on‑site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose‑created colleague‑only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work‑life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part‑time working, job‑share, term‑time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person Specification

Qualifications

- Current and relevant registration on NMC/HCPC

- Registered practice for a minimum of 2 years at Band 6

- Evidence of recent professional development relevant to job role

- Recruitment and selection training

- Teaching/assessing qualification

- Human factors training

Experience

- Current clinical expertise in at least two of the three areas of theatre practice (scrub, anaesthetic and recovery)

- Awareness of research based practice

- Awareness of reflective and clinical supervision skills

- Ability to prioritise workload and multitasking

- Experience in staff appraisal

- Experience of Resource Management

- Demonstrable understanding of HR processes pertaining to staff and management

- Experience in audit processes

Knowledge

- Demonstrable knowledge of development/innovation in Theatre clinical practice

- Of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patients' care during major surgery

- Of managing, leading and working as an integral member of the team

- Of clinical governance and patient safety agendas

- Of Workforce planning, recruitment and retention

- Of the importance of successful collaboration/networking with other department

- Experience of and enthusiasm for clinical teaching

- Professional development in an acute theatre environment

- Of principles of lifelong learning, professional education and training

Skills

- Team building and Team working skills - able to lead a team to achieve results

- Highly developed clear and consistent communications skills: - Inter-personal skills - Liaison and negotiation skills

- Ability to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and work independently

- Ability to lead, motivate and empower others

- Ability to make effective judgments in stressful situations

- Awareness of strategic objectives

- Participation in developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion

- Ability to respond and manage emergency situations

Additional Requirements

- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Together: Safe, Kind, Excellent

- Ability to have a broad view of health care

- Able to meet a challenge

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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