Theatre Team Leader - Scrub

Overview

37.5 hours per week (Some unsocial hours)

6 Months - Secondment

Closing Date: 18th February 2026

Interview Date: TBC

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.

Previous applicants need not apply

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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Are you are looking to further your career and embrace a peri-operative role with a commitment to deliver the best possible outcomes for our service users within our busy Theatres.

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, adaptable and self-motivated Band 6 Theatre Team Leader with Scrub and Recovery skills.

• To provide exemplary care of patients within the perioperative and assist in the management and organisation of care provision in the operating theatre.
• To support the Senior Team Leaders/Theatre Manager to manage a team of practitioners ensuring the development and maintenance of high standards of Perioperative care.
• To take responsibility for the day-to-day operational and resource management of the clinical area.
• To take the lead for specific areas of professional practice as delegated by the Senior Team Leaders.
• Acts as a leader, delegating appropriate tasks and supervising the standard of care delivered by more junior qualified staff, unqualified staff and student nurses/ODP's in the perioperative team.
• To take responsibility for operational and financial resource management, as delegated by Senior Team Leaders / Theatre Manager.
• To deputise for the Senior Team Leaders in their absence.

In conjunction with the Professional Development Team, (Theatres), assist with the Training & Development Programmes for the following group of staff:

• Preceptorship of Newly Qualified Practitioners
• Training & Development programmes Registered Practitioners
• Return to Practice staff
• Mentorship of Nursing/ODP students/ODP Apprenticeship/Nursing Associate

Here at George Eliot our vision to excel at patient care takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Clinical

• Deliver a high standard of perioperative care without direct supervision, based upon a sound evidence base.
• To provide skilled clinical assistance to the anaesthetic and recovery teams.
• Undertakes and document comprehensive, systematic and accurate perioperative care assessment of the physical social and spiritual needs of the patient where appropriate.
• Creates and utilizes opportunities to promote health and wellbeing of patients in their care.
• Leads a perioperative team to manage a group of patients throughout a shift.
• Working within the NMC/HCPC Guidelines and Trust Policies recognising ones own abilities and limitations.
• Maintain a good standard of communication with the multi-disciplinary team and respect the confidentiality of patients, relatives, and colleagues.
• To ensure 24-hour cover, working rotational shifts to include earlies, lates, nights, weekends and Bank Holidays.
• Influence and monitor the standards of direct patient care delivery in accordance with best practice and operational protocols and guidelines.
• Promote good working…