Deputy Team Leader - Colorectal

Transformationunitgm; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization seeks a highly motivated Deputy Team Leader for its Colorectal Theatres. The role involves managing a team and ensuring high-quality patient care. Candidates should possess clinical competencies, leadership experience, and a commitment to service improvement, with opportunities for professional development and contributions to team diversity.

Benefits

Ongoing professional development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• 2 years specialty experience required.
• Demonstrable leadership skills and experience.
• Evidence of clinical governance knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Support and deputize for the Team Leader.
• Coordinate the clinical area to meet patient needs.
• Ensure high-quality patient care in accordance with policies.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical skills

Time management

Organizational skills

Education

HCPC/NMC Registration

Job description

Main area Colorectal Theatres Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Full Time 37.5 hours over week) Job ref 164-7182174

Employer Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Cross Campus Town Nottingham Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/06/2025 23:59

Deputy Team Leader - Colorectal

Band 6

Job overview

We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic Theatre Practitioner with the appropriate clinical experience to work closely with our existing band 6 colleagues and team leader to support our excellent team continuously develop our elective service, meeting the needs of our service users.

This post will require the successful applicant to provide evidence of excellent clinical skills, and show competence in a wide range ofleadership skills.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will need to demonstrate a keen interest in improving and developing their leadership skills to enable management of staff, coordination of the unit and being an effective role model demonstrating high levels of clinical competence and expertise. You should be able to demonstrate involvement in service improvement, with some evidence of change management.

You will demonstrate skills in self-management, including time management, prioritisation and organisational skills. You will need to have a flexible attitude to work, be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team and have the capacity to go the extra mile. You will be expected to exhibit knowledge of how we work towards our trusts vision.

Working for our organisation

NUH is committed to providing development opportunities to all grades of staff, and as a Deputy Team Leader you will be supported to develop appropriate leadership skills. The post requires you to hold registration with the appropriate professional Regulatory Body and to comply with their professional code of conduct. Evidence of on-going registration will be required.

The Clinical Support Division would especially welcome applications from BAME colleagues who are currently underrepresented at this level

Hours of work are worked flexibly over 7 days and inclusive of weekends, late finishes and bank holidays.

Please note, that due to ongoing service developments the post holder may be required cross site at our other Theatre Complex with the agreement of the Speciality Team Leader.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In addition to the brief list above you must familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification attached to this advert prior to applying.

The successful candidate for this role will be expected:

To support and deputise for the Team Leader, taking managerial, clinical and professional responsibility for a team of practitioners.

To support staff, ensuring the provision of high quality patient care in the most efficient and safe manner in accordance with Divisional and NUH policies and procedures

Person specification

Skills and Experience

• Is able to co-ordinate the clinical area in order to meet patient needs
• Junior/Supervisory management course.

Training and Qualifications

• HCPC/NMC Registration
• Provides a credible source of expertise for others

Experience and patient care

• • 2 years speciality experience
• • Is aware of strategies relating to clinical governance and infection prevention

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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

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If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks : NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Departmentconfidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.