Orthopaedic Theatre Team Leader

Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Orthopaedic Theatre Team Leader to provide clinical leadership within their busy orthopaedic operating theatres. This role requires a dynamic individual with extensive scrub experience in orthopaedics, capable of leading a skilled team and ensuring a high standard of patient-centered care. The Trust is recognized for its excellence and compassion in healthcare delivery, making this an exciting opportunity for motivated theatre practitioners ready to advance their leadership career.

Qualifications

• Experience and motivation in a theatre practitioner role.
• Extensive scrub experience in orthopaedics.
• Dynamic and dedicated personality.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate daily orthopaedic theatre operations.
• Liaise with medical teams to optimize theatre flow.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements.

Skills

Leadership and coordination

Communication

Scrub experience in orthopaedics

Guidance and mentorship

Job description

Team Management

• Lead and coordinate the daily running of orthopaedic theatre lists.
• Allocate duties based on team members' skills and experience.
• Provide guidance and mentorship for students, newly appointed staff, and junior colleagues.
• Support induction, competency assessments, and performance reviews.
• Facilitate team briefings, debriefs, and incident reviews.

Operational Duties

• Liaise with surgeons, anaesthetists, and recovery teams to optimise theatre flow.
• Manage equipment and implant availability, liaising with suppliers and stores.
• Monitor adherence to service level agreements and elevate non-compliance.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and efficiency gains.
• Reduce turnaround times and minimise case delays.

Apply now and become part of a team that values excellence, compassion, and innovation.

Are you an experienced and motivated theatre practitioner ready to take the next step in your leadership career?

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a dynamic and dedicated Orthopaedic Theatre Team Leader to provide clinical leadership within our busy orthopaedic operating theatres. As Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care and maintaining professional standards within the theatre setting. This is an exciting opportunity for a compassionate, forward-thinking individual with extensive scrub experience in orthopaedics who is ready to lead and inspire a skilled team.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.