Band 6
Main area
Theatres
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time hours per week (Alternate weekends and rota'd night shift obligation)
Job ref
287-ASUR-15-26
Department name
LUH - 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)
Site
Aintree University Hospital
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/02/2026 23:59
Job Overview
Theatre Team Leader
Band 6
Permanent
Full Time hours per week
Aintree Theatres are going through exciting transformational changes to deliver the future of healthcare services across Liverpool.
We are seeking a highly motivated, professional Theatre practitioner to lead a team within a very busy Emergency and Orthopaedic trauma speciality theatre unit.
We are looking for dynamic individuals, with excellent leadership skills and an in-depth knowledge of Orthopaedic trauma, General, MFU, ENT, Vascular, Urology and plastics Surgeries.
You will have the motivation, vision and leadership qualities necessary to lead a successful theatre team. As a key member of the A Theatres, senior team, you will be required to deliver high standards of perioperative care, and have the ability to support and develop your team to meet the needs of an ever changing and fast evolving theatre department.
Within A Theatres we enjoy the reputation of being the specialist Urgent care and trauma centre for the region providing high quality emergency and trauma services.
This is an opportunity to join a friendly, supportive team, where you can develop personally and also support a team of dedicated professionals to deliver patient care that we can all be proud of.
Main duties of the job
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of evidenced-based patient care.
Provide management and organisation of a clinical area of the theatre.
Participate in the education, development and line management of other staff members.
Work collaboratively and co-operatively with others to meet the needs of patients and when appropriate their families.
Participate in improvement of services and the quality of care provision.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.
Clinical Responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Perform comprehensive assessment of pen-operative patient care needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health care needs / technology and varying levels of complexity.
Collect, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records to enable effective care delivery.
Involve the multidisciplinary team and where possible patients and carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of care.
Work collaboratively with other professionals and departments to ensure patient needs are met, especially with regard to efficient enhancement of the patient journey within the speciality.
Establish and maintain effective communication with multi- disciplinary team, patients and carers/relatives.
Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
Treat all information regarding clients and patients as confidential.
Management/Leadership Responsibilities
Act as an effective role model
Lead a team, organising and co-ordinating the daily care delivery
Deputise for the Speciality Leader in their absence.
Accept delegated line management responsibilities of other team members including performance development reviews and provide counselling & support where necessary.
Support the Speciality Leader to maximise best use of clinical resources, implementing best practice in patient flow, and the patient's journey.
Participate in the interviewing of staff for theatre teams.
Promotes the development of services within the speciality area and assist the Speciality Leader to implement change.
Ensure the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources: reporting fluctuations and developments in a timely manner.
Monitor health, safety and security of self and others.
Promote best practice in the theatre area.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Registered Nurse
Post-registration qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
Broad range of relevant clinical expereince
Experience of service development
Skills
Essential criteria
Excellent communication skills
Basic IT skills
Excellent prioritisation skills
Leadership abilities
Other
Essential criteria
Supportive of colleagues
High level of personal and professional credibility
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to 'internal staff' are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the website -
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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