Team Leader - Orthopaedics

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the UK is looking for an experienced Orthopaedic Theatre Team Leader to provide clinical leadership within their busy operating theatres. This role involves managing theatre operations, mentoring team members, and ensuring high-quality patient care. Candidates must have significant experience as a Senior Operating Department Practitioner or Registered Nurse. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from £38,682 to £46,580 annually.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Senior Operating Department Practitioner/1st level registered nurse.
• Experience as a scrub practitioner.
• Evidence of personal and professional development in perioperative practice/management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate daily running of orthopaedic theatre lists.
• Allocate duties based on team members' skills and experience.
• Provide guidance and mentorship for students and junior colleagues.

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational abilities

Leadership skills

Education

1st level Registered Nurse or Diploma in Operating Department Practice

Job description

Go back Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Team Leader - Orthopaedics

The closing date is 20 November 2025

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 to lead and inspire a skilled team.

Key Responsibilities

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 escalate 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.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

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.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs – GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

• Good communication skills with clear written and oral skills
• Effective organisation abilities, supervisory skills
• Change management and leadership skills

Qualifications

Essential

• 1st level Registered Nurse or Diploma in Operating Department Practice or equivalent

Further Training

Essential

• Evidence of personal and professional development in perioperative practice/ management

Desirable

• Diploma in Management/ relevant to post or willingness to undertake related Diploma level study

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience as a Senior Operating Department Practitioner/ 1st level registered nurse
• Experience as a scrub practitioner

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• Regular attendance
• Ability to work flexibly
• Cover unsociable hours, including on‑calls

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 to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL

Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum pro rata