Senior Charge Nurse​/Senior Charge ODP

Perioperative Services – Dr Gray’s Hospital, Moray

Launch your perioperative management career  are seeking an experienced, dynamic Band 7 SCN/ODP to lead perioperative services in Moray, with a key focus on consultant‑led obstetric and women’s services for Dr Gray’s as part of a multi‑disciplinary programme team. You will play a central role in shaping safe, high quality perioperative care for the Moray Community, by ensuring workforce readiness and robust clinical governance (aligned to current DGH pathways and workforce plans).

This post forms part of a small team of two Senior Charge Nurses / Operating Department Practitioners, and the successful candidate will be expected to provide mutual cover to ensure consistent leadership and oversight across all perioperative services within Dr Gray’s Theatre Suite.

• Provide visible, compassionate leadership across the perioperative continuum (anaesthetics, scrub, circulation, recovery).
• Lead day to day operations, staffing, and safe delivery of scheduled theatre lists, ensuring resilient coverage and adherence to perioperative standards.
• Drive service improvement and development, including training, competency assurance, and readiness for expanding scheduled activity.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues to embed best practice, clinical pathways, and documentation standards across perioperative care.
• Foster a learning culture—coaching, mentoring, and supporting practitioners, NGNs/ODPs, HCSWs, and students.

• Registered Nurse (Adult) or ODP with substantial perioperative experience (women’s services desirable).
• Proven leadership in theatre operations, workforce planning, rostering, and escalation for safe staffing.
• Strong track record in service development, clinical governance, and quality improvement within perioperative settings.
• Confident communicator who builds effective relationships across clinical and managerial teams.
• Committed to education, supervision, and competency sign‑off frameworks for all perioperative practice (including women’s and obstetric competencies).

• An opportunity to collaboratively lead Perioperative Services at DGH during a pivotal phase of service enhancements and the development of a consultant‑led obstetric service, working with a multi‑disciplinary programme team.
• Support from a collaborative multidisciplinary team and access to structured perioperative learning resources and case‑based workbooks specific to DGH.
• Professional development and scope to influence workforce models, pathways, and perioperative standards for Moray.
• Relocation support may be available for the right candidate (subject to organisational policy).

• Lead rostering, skills‑mix, and real‑time theatre coordination to deliver safe scheduled obstetric lists.
• Implement, monitor, and refine clinical pathways and documentation standards (Opera / Badger Net obstetric workflows).
• Oversee education and competency programmes; maintain training records and sign‑offs across anaesthetics, scrub, circulation, and recovery.
• Champion incident learning, audit, and QI cycles; report outcomes and drive improvement.
• Engage with recruitment, induction, and retention initiatives to build a resilient team.