Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-ES132
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Heatherwood Hospital
- Town
- Ascot
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Theatres General Team Leader
Band 7
Job overview
This an excellent opportunity for a Nurse or ODP with scrub experience to join our grown Theatres General Team. Here at Heatherwood, we promote everyone looking after each other, listening and action events, regular training, external training opportunities, staff development, and a happy working environment.
Main duties of the job
As the Band 7 Team Leader for the General Surgery Team, you will expected to have strong scrub practitioner knowledge, and leadership qualities to lead a team professionally and develop their skills further. You will be required to ensure that the practices and behaviours of staff meet our trust values, Theatre Standard Operating Procedures, as well maintaining high standards of quality care. If you are passionate about leading & teaching others, staff wellbeing and experience, providing high standards of care to our patients, patient safety, and making changes then we would like to hear from you.
To ensure good working relationships are maintained with the larger Multidisciplinary team and to wider areas of the Trust.
To have robust budget systems in place to manage the day to day running of the department.
To ensure incidents and accidents are reported and dealt with in a timely manner
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to work within the trust values, ensuring that they are embedded into clinical practice to give our patients and staff the best possible outcome and experience.
To be accountable for the operational management of the General Surgery Team within theatres, covering: Ophthalmology Surgery, General Surgery, Gynaecology, Urology, plastic surgeries. To ensure that staff comply to policies and procedures therefore being able to induct staff, teach junior staff and students is a must. The post holder will also be accountable for ensuring up-to-date clinical practice, providing clinical staff with leadership across the department when designated Theatre Coordinator and also ensuring the effective utilisation of the theatres. The post holder will be expected to participate in the Heatherwood Site-coordinator on rotation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Active Professional Registration (NMC/HCPC)
- Experience of masters level education or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Extended learning in the Surgical Specialities attached to this post
- Evidence of Post registration training and CPD
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to champion change in clinical working practices to colleagues
- Evidence of on-going self-led programme of CPD
- Ability to work with stakeholders at all levels of seniority
- Ability to manage challenging colleagues in a diplomatic manner
- Personal confidence; adaptable and self-motivated.
- Leadership and problem solving abilities
- Ability to communicate (verbally, & written) to develop solutions to issues in collaboration with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
- IT literacy (for example, in word, Excel, an PowerPoint)
- Excellent communicator both orally and in writing
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the application of project management
- Counselling skills
- Ability to listen and represent views correctly
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of developing and maintaining effective working relationships under pressure
- A passion for improving patient safety and clinical services
- Flexible: able to adjust shift/ work pattern according to work demands
- Able to deal with complex/conflicting situations
- Analysis of clinical and professional issues
Desirable criteria
- Experience on working on service modernisation and redesign programmes
- Multi specialty theatre experience
- Safe Laser training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Srijana Gurung
- Job title
- Matron for Theatres and Recovery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006144141
- Additional information
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