Team Leader- Theatres

NHS; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Stevenage seeks a Theatre Team Leader to ensure outstanding patient care. The role involves leading clinical teams, supporting elective and emergency surgery, and maintaining safety standards. Candidates should be a Registered Nurse or Registered ODP with scrub experience in relevant surgical areas. This position promotes a balance between work and life, allowing for flexible working options.

Qualifications

• Willingness to undertake post registration courses as advised by the Practice Educators/Theatre Team Leaders.
• Experience in Scrub roles within ENT/General Surgery/Emergency specialties.

Responsibilities

• Maintain health, safety and control of infection in clinical work areas.
• Assist and care for patients undergoing elective and emergency procedures.
• Act as clinical lead to staff at Band 6 and below.

Skills

Good interpersonal and communication skills

Basic IT skills

Ability to demonstrate initiative

Flexible

Education

Registered Nurse or Registered ODP

ILS / PILS

Job description

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Team Leader — Theatres

The closing date is 21 November 2025

We are recruiting for Theatre Team Leaders who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We have a new role available as Scrub Theatre Team Leader. This post requires candidates to have an all round knowledge of elective (Vascular, Orthopaedics, Urology, Obstetrics & Gynae, Plastics, Robotics, ENT and General Surgery) and emergency procedures.

The Registered ODP / Registered Nurse is a vital and valued role to support in providing high-quality, compassionate care to patient/clients and their families/carers within the clinical / peri-operative environment. Based within the theatre team they work closely the multi-disciplinary team in monitoring and maintaining policies, standards of nursing care, staff and service development.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

• Maintain health, safety and control of infection in clinical work areas.
• Assist and care for patients undergoing a variety of elective (Vascular, Orthopaedics, Urology, Obstetrics & Gynae, Plastics, Robotics, ENT and General Surgery) and emergency procedures.
• Receive, transfer and position patients for clinical procedure.
• Prepare equipment/supplies and waste is kept to a minimum.
• Ability to work in any of the Theatre areas according to service needs, regardless of which theatre department they are based in, although it is anticipated that staff do permanently work in the department they are employed to be based in.
• Act as clinical lead to staff at Band 6 and below and supervise staff within a specific area of responsibility.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

• Registered Nurse or Registered ODP
• Must be willing to undertake post registration courses as advised by the Practice Educators/Theatre Team Leaders
• ILS / PILS

Previous Experience

• Scrub experience in ENT/General Surgery/Emergency specialties
• Post qualification experience within the perioperative setting
• Gained through undertaking Relevant study

Skills

• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Basic IT skills
• Ability to demonstrate initiative
• Flexible

Knowledge

• Aware of the National 6 C's campaign
• Aware of Trust Values
• An understanding of Perioperative patient care
• An understanding of aseptic technique
• Teamwork
• Participate in audit

Other Requirements

• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day

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.