Recovery Team Leader | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £39,959 - £48,117 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 June 2026 |
| Location: | Ipswich, IP4 5PD |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 8015873/432-HR260-26 |
Summary
We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and forward‑thinking Recovery Team Leader to join our dynamic perioperative team. This is a key leadership role within a busy, multispecialty theatre environment, supporting high‑quality post‑anaesthetic care across a wide range of surgical services including general, orthopaedic, gynaecology, obstetrics, urology, ENT and breast surgery.
As Recovery Team Leader, you will coordinate the day‑to‑day running of the recovery unit, ensuring safe, efficient, and patient‑centred care. You will act as a clinical role model, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to the recovery team while fostering a positive, collaborative culture.
• Lead and coordinate the recovery unit across multiple surgical specialities, ensuring safe staffing and smooth patient flow.
• Provide high‑quality clinical care and act as an expert resource for post‑anaesthetic and post‑operative management.
• Support staff development through coaching, supervision, competency assessment, and identifying training needs.
• Promote staff wellbeing, engagement, and retention through effective communication, visibility, and supportive leadership.
• Work closely with theatre coordinators, anaesthetists, surgeons, and wider MDT to maintain high standards of care and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to service improvement initiatives, audit, and quality assurance activities.
• Ensure compliance with clinical governance, infection control, and health & safety standards.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 May 2026