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Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Team Leader - Theatres

The closing date is 09 November 2025

Band 7 Theatre Practitioner (Scrub and Anaesthetics)

We are looking for two highly skilled and motivated Band 7 Theatre Practitioners with either extensive scrub and anaesthetic experience or anaesthetic experience to join our dynamic teams.

1 Band 7 Rosie & AP/ODP and 1 Band 7 for Unit 3 & CEU

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.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and coordinating the day-to-day activities within Theatres 24/7

- 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

The post holder 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.

About us

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 1,100 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.

Job responsibilities

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

Immigration and Work Rules

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have applied for a Graduate visa, or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment, or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start.

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 9 November 2025.

Interviews are due to be held on 24 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 workloadand 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

- The ability to instigate change

- 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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