Team Leader - Theatres Unit 2 - Maternity Leave Secondment

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Cambridge is seeking a highly skilled Band 7 Theatre Practitioner to join their dynamic team. Your responsibilities will include leading theatre activities and ensuring high-quality patient care while employing your clinical expertise and leadership skills. This rewarding position seeks an experienced professional with strong scrub and/or anaesthetic experience, ready to contribute to a supportive team environment.

Benefits

On-site leisure facilities

Reduced-cost travel

Flexible working arrangements

24/7 hot food availability

Dedicated break spaces

Qualifications

• Extensive scrub and/or anaesthetic experience.
• Strong clinical, leadership, and management skills.
• Ability to manage complex clinical situations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day theatre activities.
• Provide professional and managerial leadership to teams.
• Ensure high-quality services responsive to patient needs.

Skills

Scrub experience

Anaesthetic experience

Leadership skills

Team coordination

Education

Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner qualification

Job description

A Vacancy at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Band 7 Theatre Practitioner (Scrub and / or Anaesthetics) Secondment

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Band 7 Theatre Practitioner with extensive scrub and/or anaesthetic experience to join our dynamic team.

As a senior member of staff, you will play a pivotal role in delivering safe, high‑quality patient care while maintaining strong clinical, leadership, and management skills within a supportive senior team structure.

Key responsibilities

• Leading and coordinating the day‑to‑day activities within: Unit 2, Transplant & Emergency Theatres
• Demonstrating effective and safe decision‑making in complex clinical situations
• Taking an active role in all aspects of staff management, including supervision, development, and performance
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of services and patient outcomes

What we offer

• Ongoing professional support from our dedicated Practice Education Team
• Access to continuous training and development opportunities to help you reach your full potential
• The chance to work within a forward‑thinking and innovative organisation that values excellence and puts patients at the heart of everything we do

If you are a confident, motivated professional with strong theatre experience and a passion for leading teams to deliver first‑class patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Post holder responsibilities

• Provide professional and managerial leadership to the clinical/theatre teams within their designated areas
• Provide a highly visible and authoritative presence, ensuring the provision of high‑quality services responsive to the needs of the patient at the centre of care delivery
• Maintain a visible clinical presence acting as a role model upon whom patients, visitors and staff can rely for support to ensure the fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met
• Support the wider divisional leadership team covering weekends and nights when required to ensure effective and efficient management of services to agreed standards
• Support the Theatre Matrons by leading and developing theatre practitioners in their clinical practice and meaningful improvements to patient care
• Manage the department out of normal working hours and deputise for the Theatre Matrons as required

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1,100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together, Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high‑quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

Equal Opportunity

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Application details

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed‑term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed‑term position.

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 9 November 2025.

Interviews are due to be held on 24 November 2025.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on‑site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced‑cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose‑created colleague‑only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work‑life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part‑time working, job‑share, term‑time working and flexible start and finish times.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.