Theatre Team Leader | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 December 2025 |
| Location: | Hexham, NE46 1QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7556764/319-7556764GH |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 General Surgery Team Leader to join the team in the newly built theatre department at Hexham General Hospital.
We are looking for an experienced Operating Department Practitioner/Nurse to lead and manage the team within General Surgery, Gynaecology and Plastics.
You must be dynamic , flexible and forward thinking and motivated to drive change and creative ways of working to cover trust wide service needs.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Please note: for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval from your current manager and have completed documentation required beforehand (see secondment policy) , as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.
Would you like to work for a Trust where you can be proud of the contribution you will make to delivering high quality healthcare with a personal touch, come and join a Trust which recognises the contribution our Nursing, Midwifery and Operating Department Practitioners make, and values the work they do.
This is reflected in our current 5 year strategy vision “to develop a valued and respected workforce who are given the skills to inspire and innovate across professions”.
We currently have a vacancy for a keen and enthusiastic person with extended experience in Orthopaedics to join our team at the North Tyneside General Hospital. The successful candidate will also be be working with the team across sites when required. As a Registered Nurse/ Operating Department Practitioner in our Trust, you should be committed to delivering a professional, caring and compassionate approach, putting patient care at the heart of all you do.
The successful candidate will provide support and senior cover in the department where the service requires.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England
To assist in the provision of nursing care and maintain high clinical standards
To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC / HPCP Code of Professional Conduct
Develop over time and contribute to the management of a clinical area and take charge in the absence of the theatre team manager
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates teamworking and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries
This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Dec 2025