Theatre Team Leader
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner to join the theatre team at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust. The role involves working across various sites, predominantly Burnley General Hospital, participating in a wide range of elective and emergency surgeries. The successful candidate will provide expert patient care, maintain a safe environment, and coordinate the theatre unit daily, acting as an exemplary role model.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse - 1st or ODP 752, Level 3/Certificate of Higher Education or Diploma Teaching/Assessing Qualification: 998/7307/mentorship/A1 Advanced Certificate in Operating Dept Practice Clinical Leadership Qualification.
- Minimum 18 months experience at Team Leader level within Theatres. In depth experience in Elective Theatres proven ability to lead a theatre team. Knowledge of finance and budgets. Knowledge of Procurement protocol and process.
- Experience in staff management. Ability to handle conflict. Ability to persuade and influence. Proven experience with the management of staff sickness and HR issues. Excellent IT skills.
- Clear accurate written/verbal and electronic communication. Experience in embedding governance processes within a theatre department.
- To work the hours required and to adapt to the changing needs of the service. Work across ELHT sites as service needs.
- Ability to delegate effectively. Able to motivate, engage and develop the multi-disciplinary team. Demonstrate role modelling behaviours. Demonstrate quality and sustainability experience.
- Proven development of own skills and clinical knowledge around all specialities including robotic surgery.
Desirable criteria
- Degree in health associated studies. Teaching certificate or equivalent experience. Qualified first assistant. Further qualification in scrub, anaesthetics or recovery.
- Wider knowledge in multiple surgical specialties. theatre coordination. Previous experience of service development.
- Be proficient with Excel spread sheets, sharepoint, teams, outlook and audit reports.
- Attending governance meeting. Generating new risks.
- Demonstrate a sympathetic /sensitive approach and to be able to speak effectively to colleagues, staff and patients
- Able to deal with confidential information in the appropriate manner.
- Registered Nurse - 1st or ODP 752, Level 3/Certificate of Higher Education or Diploma Teaching/Assessing Qualification: 998/7307/mentorship/A1 Advanced Certificate in Operating Dept Practice Clinical Leadership Qualification.
- Minimum 18 months experience at Team Leader level within Theatres. In depth experience in Elective Theatres proven ability to lead a theatre team. Knowledge of finance and budgets. Knowledge of Procurement protocol and process.
- Experience in staff management. Ability to handle conflict. Ability to persuade and influence. Proven experience with the management of staff sickness and HR issues. Excellent IT skills.
- Clear accurate written/verbal and electronic communication. Experience in embedding governance processes within a theatre department.
- To work the hours required and to adapt to the changing needs of the service. Work across ELHT sites as service needs.
- Ability to delegate effectively. Able to motivate, engage and develop the multi-disciplinary team. Demonstrate role modelling behaviours. Demonstrate quality and sustainability experience.
- Proven development of own skills and clinical knowledge around all specialities including robotic surgery.
- Degree in health associated studies. Teaching certificate or equivalent experience. Qualified first assistant. Further qualification in scrub, anaesthetics or recovery.
- Wider knowledge in multiple surgical specialties. theatre coordination. Previous experience of service development.
- Be proficient with Excel spread sheets, sharepoint, teams, outlook and audit reports.
- Attending governance meeting. Generating new risks.
- Demonstrate a sympathetic /sensitive approach and to be able to speak effectively to colleagues, staff and patients
- Able to deal with confidential information in the appropriate manner.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Theatre Team Leader
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic, committed, hardworking, and highly motivated, Registered Nurse's or Operating DepartmentPractitioner's to join our family of dedicated Theatre Practitioners.
Your base for the role will predominantly be atBurnley General Hospital, however cross site working will be an expectation, as the service need occurs.
Main duties of the job
We have 11 theatres at the Royal Blackburn site and 17 at Burnley General and together we carry out a wide range of both elective andemergency surgery through many specialities including: Gynaecology, obstetrics, ophthalmology, general surgery, vascular, colorectal, HPB,Urology, orthopaedics, trauma, ENT, maxillofacial including Robotic assisted Surgery, and a 24 hour emergency service on both sites.
About us
We encourage innovation.
ELHT already has the largest and most comprehensive programme of robot assisted surgery in the northwest, with the region's leading surgeons removing head and neck, urological and colorectal cancers at the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital.
A second robot has been installed at Burnley General Teaching Hospital allowing surgeons to perform robot assisted surgery for gynaecological/Urological cancers.
The extra capacity will also allow ELH
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