Anaesthetic Team Leader
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an Anaesthetic Team Leader to join the Operating Theatres at Macclesfield District General Hospital. The successful candidate will lead a team, assist with management tasks like sickness and rostering, and contribute to patient care excellence. It requires a Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner with anaesthetic experience and relevant qualifications. The position offers opportunities in various surgical specialities and support for leadership development.
Essential criteria
- Qualification in Operating Department Practice or
- Registered General Nurse. with post anaesthetic qualification
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Registered with HCPC (Health and Care Professional Council)
- Registered with NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council)
- Knowledge and Skills
- Organised and ability to prioritise workload
- Ability to develop and maintain communication with people about difficult matters and/or in difficult situations
- Able to demonstrate effective management, interpersonal, problem solving and decision-making skills
- Evidence of the ability to lead, manage, coordinate, delegate and motivate a theatre team and review performance
- Understanding of the skills and knowledge required to develop team members
- Experience of mentorship and an ability to identify learning and development needs
- Experience post qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Documented evidence of a wide range of advanced anaesthetic skills
- Other Role Requirements
- Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details regarding the role requirements
- Qualification in Operating Department Practice or
- Registered General Nurse. with post anaesthetic qualification
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Registered with HCPC (Health and Care Professional Council)
- Registered with NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council)
- Knowledge and Skills
- Organised and ability to prioritise workload
- Ability to develop and maintain communication with people about difficult matters and/or in difficult situations
- Able to demonstrate effective management, interpersonal, problem solving and decision-making skills
- Evidence of the ability to lead, manage, coordinate, delegate and motivate a theatre team and review performance
- Understanding of the skills and knowledge required to develop team members
- Experience of mentorship and an ability to identify learning and development needs
- Experience post qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Documented evidence of a wide range of advanced anaesthetic skills
- Other Role Requirements
- Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details regarding the role requirements
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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East Cheshire NHS Trust
Anaesthetic Team Leader
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Subject to job matching
A vacancy has arisen for an Anaesthetic Team Leader to join the busy Operating Theatres at Macclesfield District General Hospital. We are keen to recruit a motivated and forward thinking team member to assist with the day to day running of the operating theatres.
We are seeking a Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner who has previous anaesthetic experience and the relevant post-graduate Anaesthetic qualification or Operating Department Practitioner with experience. The successful candidate will lead a team of staff and will assist with areas of management such as sickness, rostering and personal development reviews, in line with trust values.
We are able to offer excellent opportunities in a wide range of specialities including General Surgery, ENT, Orthopaedics, Trauma, Gynaecology, Urology, Ophthalmics and Breast. You will be supported by senior staff within the department who will be able to assist you in the further development of your existing team working, leadership and motivational skills.
Hours per week: 37.5
Main duties of the job
To function as the lead practitioner for a designated area
To assist in the management of the area to ensure excellence in patient care and to have responsibility for staff and
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