Paediatric Clinical Specialist (Theatre Practitioner)

TN United Kingdom; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team as a Paediatric Clinical Specialist in Wakefield, where you will lead in paediatric airway care and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team. This role offers the chance to enhance your clinical skills while ensuring the highest standards of care for our young patients. With a focus on staff wellbeing and professional growth, you will be part of an organization that values diversity and inclusivity. Your contributions will directly impact the lives of children and families, making every day rewarding and fulfilling. Embrace this opportunity to be a leader in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Access to NHS pension plan

Generous holiday allowance

Exceptional health and wellbeing services

Onsite nurseries

Cycle to work scheme

Car lease salary sacrifice scheme

Flexible working options

Career progression and training support

Qualifications

• Qualified ODP or RN with anaesthetic qualification and experience.
• Demonstrates clinical excellence in paediatric airway care.

Responsibilities

• Promotes excellence in paediatric airway care and clinical delivery.
• Coordinates clinical workload and supports staff development.

Skills

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Clinical Leadership

Team Collaboration

Workload Organisation

Resource Planning

Education

Operating Department Practitioner (ODP)

Registered Nurse (RN)

Recognised Anaesthetic Qualification

Job description

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Paediatric Clinical Specialist (Theatre Practitioner), Wakefield

An 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.

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.

Job Description

The post holder will demonstrate clinical leadership and demonstrate a significant knowledge of their speciality, teambuilding and communication skills achieved by experience within the speciality and act as a Scrub Person, Anaesthetic Assistant, Recovery Person, Circulating Person and Escort Person within the limitations of the post holder’s qualifications. The post holder will act as role model to colleagues and mentor junior members of staff and students, participating in PKDR and recruitment and selection.

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one 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. It’s 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.

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support

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