Band 6 Team Leader - TheatresNHS

Job summary

As a Band 6 Team Leader, you will play a key role in coordinating day-to-day theatre activity across a range of specialist services, working within Anaesthetics and Recovery. You will work closely with the Theatre Manager, Senior Nursing Team, Anaesthetic teams and Surgeons to ensure safe, effective theatre operations, smooth patient flow and high standards of clinical care.

The role involves providing clinical leadership, supporting and supervising junior staff and students, allocating duties according to competence and promoting effective multidisciplinary teamwork. You will use your clinical knowledge, organisational and communication skills to work autonomously across specialist areas, maintaining a proactive, flexible and positive approach in a fast-paced environment.

As a clinical leader, you will support staff development, provide guidance and supervision, contribute to training and competency assessments, and promote professional standards and evidence-based practice. You will also participate in clinical audits, incident reporting, service development and quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient care and service delivery.

Main duties of the job

You will provide safe, effective and compassionate perioperative care to patients undergoing surgical procedures. This includes assisting anaesthetists during induction, maintenance and emergence from anaesthesia, ensuring anaesthetic equipment, airway devices, monitoring systems and emergency equipment are checked, prepared and maintained in accordance with local policies.

Responsibilities include undertaking pre-operative checks, preparing patients for surgery, maintaining dignity and confidentiality, and ensuring accurate clinical documentation. Within Recovery, you will assess and monitor patients' airway, breathing, circulation, consciousness, vital signs, pain and nausea, recognising and escalating clinical deterioration promptly and ensuring safe transfer to the appropriate clinical area.

You will maintain high standards of infection prevention and control, medicines management, safeguarding and patient safety, while participating in the management of clinical emergencies. You will support efficient theatre and recovery operations by maintaining equipment and stock levels and ensuring resources are available when required.

Job description

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About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.