Paediatric Clinical Specialist (Theatre Practitioner)

NHS; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An outstanding opportunity for a highly skilled Paediatric Clinical Specialist to join the Theatre team at The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. The role involves clinical leadership in paediatric airway management, promoting best practices, and ensuring safe, evidence-based care delivery for paediatric patients. The successful candidate will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team and contribute to workforce development and service improvement.

Benefits

Support for work-life balance

Diverse and inclusive environment

Qualifications

• Significant post-registration experience in paediatric care.
• Registered with HCPC/NMC.
• Ability to lead and influence others.

Responsibilities

• Promote excellence in paediatric airway care.
• Coordinate clinical workload for staff.
• Deliver direct care to paediatric patients.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Team Collaboration

Resource Planning

Teaching

Effective Problem Solving

Education

Anaesthetic Qualification

HCPC / NMC Registered

Degree in Professional Practice

Management or Leadership Qualification

Job description

Paediatric Clinical Specialist (Theatre Practitioner)

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Job summary

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled and motivated Paediatric Clinical Specialist to join our Theatre team at The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. We are seeking a qualified Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) or Registered Nurse (RN) with a recognised anaesthetic qualification and substantial experience in paediatric anaesthesia.

The successful candidate will act as the clinical lead for paediatric Airway, promoting excellence in practice and providing leadership across the perioperative environment. This role combines clinical responsibility with workforce development, service improvement, and the maintenance of safe, evidence based care delivery for our paediatric patients.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will demonstrate clinical excellence in paediatric airway's and act as a role model for best practice within this specialty. Working closely with the Team Leader and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT).

Key responsibilities include:

Clinical Leadership: Promotes and upholds excellence in paediatric airway care, ensuring best practice is embedded in clinical delivery.

Team Collaboration: Works in partnership with the Team Leader and MDT to ensure patient focused service.

Workload Organisation: Coordinates clinical workload to ensure staff are both competent and confident in meeting the needs of paediatric patients.

Resource Planning: Contributes to workforce planning by identifying skill mix and staffing requirements, promoting flexible and responsive working practices.

Staff Wellbeing: Actively participates in the monitoring and management of staff sickness and absence in accordance with trust policies.

Recruitment: Supports the recruitment and selection of staff, ensuring a high calibre of candidates and alignment with service needs.

Teaching: Provide mentorship and assessment of staff performance, facilitating both individual and team-based development to maintain clinical standards and encourage professional growth.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over half a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application guidance: We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. Its important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Leadership and Expertise

Serve as the clinical specialist in paediatrics, with a strong focus on paediatric airway management.

Promote and demonstrate excellence in clinical practice, acting as a role model for safe, compassionate, and evidence-based care.

Deliver direct care to paediatric patients within the perioperative setting, in accordance with Trust policies and NMC/HCPC standards.

Apply sound clinical judgment and decision making, articulating clinical rationale clearly and effectively.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Leadership and Expertise

• Serve as the clinical specialist in paediatrics, with a strong focus on paediatric airway management.

• Promote and demonstrate excellence in clinical practice, acting as a role model for safe, compassionate, and evidence-based care.

• Deliver direct care to paediatric patients within the perioperative setting, in accordance with Trust policies and NMC/HCPC standards.

• Apply sound clinical judgment and decision making, articulating clinical rationale clearly and effectively.

Service Delivery and Quality Assurance

• Maintain up to date, evidence-based practice through the annual review and development of perioperative and anaesthetic policies.

• Lead or participate in the investigation of complaints and clinical incidents in a proactive and constructive manner, using outcomes to drive service improvement.

• Contribute to departmental and trust-wide objectives, ensuring their effective translation into clinical practice.

• Demonstrate commitment to continuous quality improvement, identifying opportunities to enhance the patient and staff experience.

Team Management and Development

• Create, maintain, and enhance effective working relationships within the multidisciplinary team.

• Organise and manage clinical workload to ensure staff are competent, confident, and well prepared to meet the needs of paediatric patients.

• Contribute to workforce planning by identifying skill mix and staffing needs, promoting flexible and sustainable working practices.

• Support the recruitment and selection of staff and participate in their induction and retention.

• Monitor and manage staff sickness/absence in line with Trust policy, fostering a culture of wellbeing and accountability.

Education and Mentorship

• Participate in the ongoing development and assessment of staff through mentorship, clinical supervision, and individual performance reviews.

• Lead and support training initiatives.

• Foster a learning environment that supports professional development and clinical competence.

Collaborative Working

• Work in close partnership with the wider multidisciplinary team.

• Participate in the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist processes (Sign-In, Time-Out, and Sign-Out) to ensure the highest standards of surgical safety.

• Deliver holistic care by assessing and responding to the physical and emotional needs of paediatric patients and their families.

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

• Commitment to training.
• Commitment to patient centred values.
• Demonstrates enthusiasm, creativity, energy and inspiration in leading the peri-operative team.

Skills and Abilities

• An ability to work within the peri-operative team and organise and prioritise own and others workload.
• IT Literate.
• Proficient organisational skills.
• Ability to relate to all staff, patients and carers in a confident manner, demonstrating good listening and an ability to work effectively as part of a team Ability to lead, influence and motivate others.
• Ability to demonstrate evidence based practice.
• Effective problem solving and organisational skills.
• Ability to lead, influence and motivate others.
• Demonstrates clear direction and leadership for the peri-operative team with regards to professional dimensions of care.
• Demonstrates diplomacy and the ability to deal with colleagues, patients and carers in such a way as to avoid conflict.
• Recognises areas of interpersonal conflict and develops a proactive stance in resolving issues Ability to promote a secure environment for staff, patients and carers.

More

• Fit to perform the duties of the post.
• Able to participate fully in clinical practice.
• Able to work flexibly over a 24 hour/ 7 day period.
• Participate in on-call rotas when necessary.
• Eligible to work within the UK.

Experience

• Significant post registration experience undertaking Paediatric care in a theatre environment.

Qualifications

• Anaesthetic Qualification
• HCPC / NMC Registered
• Diploma level qualification or equivalent experience
• Degree in professional practice or working towards
• Management or leadership qualification/certificate

Knowledge and Awareness

• Essential knowledge of your own speciality and current issues in health care.
• An understanding of skills and knowledge required to develop self and team members.
• Demonstrates a clear understanding of budget management.
• Awareness of own limitations.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Trust HQ and Education Centre, Pinderfields Hospital

Trust HQ and Education Centre, Pinderfields Hospital