Job summary Are you passionate about driving excellence in Anaesthetics or Surgery? Join us as a Lead Specialist and make a significant impact in patient care and service delivery. Key Responsibilities Leadership Beyond Boundaries: Spearhead the appraisal, rota, recruitment, and supervision of a dynamic team while overseeing their professional development and performance. Patient-Centric Care: Take charge in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care programs, ensuring top-tier quality for those undergoing theatre procedures. Trailblazing Innovation: Lead clinical audits and research initiatives in your specialized field, contributing to advancements and improved outcomes. Clinical Coordination Mastery: Act as the Clinical Coordinator, ensuring seamless collaboration between various departments for streamlined patient care. Empowering Excellence: Manage and lead a specialised team, fostering a culture of professional excellence and elevating service delivery standards. Clinical and Managerial Balance: Enjoy a balanced work week, dedicating one-third of your time to clinical responsibilities while leveraging the remaining two-thirds for managerial prowess. Professional Growth: Ample opportunities for personal and professional development, allowing you to expand your skills and influence within a supportive environment. Main duties of the job As a pivotal member of our team, you'll dive into a diverse range of responsibilities, each playing a crucial role in shaping our success and impact on patient care. Communication Mastery: Be the linchpin in our communication, ensuring seamless information flow and collaboration across departments, enhancing efficiency and patient pathways. Infection Prevention Champion: Take charge of infection control measures, implementing strategies to safeguard both patients and staff, ensuring a safe and healthy environment for all. Health and Safety Advocate: Spearhead our health and safety initiatives, fostering a culture of well-being and security for our team and patients alike. Education Initiatives: Play a key role in educational endeavors, sharing knowledge, and driving learning initiatives to enhance skills and elevate standards within the team. Champion of Equality and Diversity: Embrace and promote diversity, ensuring an inclusive environment where every individual feels valued and respected. Risk Management Expertise: Mitigate risks effectively by employing strategic risk management practices, safeguarding our operations and enhancing quality care delivery. Clinical Governance Proponent: Uphold and advance clinical governance principles, ensuring adherence to standards and regulations to guarantee the highest level of care. About us Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure. Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview. For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour Date posted 06 May 2025 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 7 Salary Depending on experience 46148 pro rata Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number 175-2526-1-CA1243 Job locations Royal Papworth Hospital Papworth Road Cambridge Bio Medical Campus Cambridge CB2 0AY Job description Job responsibilities On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role. Job description Job responsibilities On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role. Person Specification Qualifications Essential Registered Nurse Level 1 with live registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Registered Operating Department Practitioner with live registration with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) Degree educated or evidence of level 6 study Qualification in theatre practice Current RN with NMC or ODP with HCPC Desirable Leadership / management qualification desirable Experience Essential Portfolio of evidence to demonstrate significant achievement in operating theatre practice and ongoing learning and development Evidence of excellent proven clinical and managerial skills Experience in teaching and assessing junior staff and learners Knowledge of the ethical and legalissues related to theatre practice Knowledge of diversification to help us further diversify the nursing leadership within the organisation, to improve the employment journey for staff with protected characteristics Ability to demonstrate effective communication in delivering complex information where there may be barrier to understanding Be able to lead staff in a compassionate and collective way ensuring that their health and wellbeing is a priority Collaborate effectively with operational and other clinical professionals to improve patient care and experience and to build strong staff engagement Be able to give honest and professional challenge to colleagues Be able to develop the clinical capability and confidence of individuals and teams and encourage innovation and curiosity about how improvements can be made Ability to work in a fast paced and highly demanding environment Ability to manage a budget Intermediate life support skills ighest level of care. Desirable Clinical and operational leadership Able to demonstrate significant personal involvement in change management ALS/CALS Additional Criteria Essential Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration Person Specification Qualifications Essential Registered Nurse Level 1 with live registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Registered Operating Department Practitioner with live registration with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) Degree educated or evidence of level 6 study Qualification in theatre practice Current RN with NMC or ODP with HCPC Desirable Leadership / management qualification desirable Experience Essential Portfolio of evidence to demonstrate significant achievement in operating theatre practice and ongoing learning and development Evidence of excellent proven clinical and managerial skills Experience in teaching and assessing junior staff and learners Knowledge of the ethical and legalissues related to theatre practice Knowledge of diversification to help us further diversify the nursing leadership within the organisation, to improve the employment journey for staff with protected characteristics Ability to demonstrate effective communication in delivering complex information where there may be barrier to understanding Be able to lead staff in a compassionate and collective way ensuring that their health and wellbeing is a priority Collaborate effectively with operational and other clinical professionals to improve patient care and experience and to build strong staff engagement Be able to give honest and professional challenge to colleagues Be able to develop the clinical capability and confidence of individuals and teams and encourage innovation and curiosity about how improvements can be made Ability to work in a fast paced and highly demanding environment Ability to manage a budget Intermediate life support skills ighest level of care. Desirable Clinical and operational leadership Able to demonstrate significant personal involvement in change management ALS/CALS Additional Criteria Essential Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Address Royal Papworth Hospital Papworth Road Cambridge Bio Medical Campus Cambridge CB2 0AY Employer's website https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab) Employer details Employer name Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Address Royal Papworth Hospital Papworth Road Cambridge Bio Medical Campus Cambridge CB2 0AY Employer's website https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab). Location : Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Road, CB2 0AY Cambridge Bio Medical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom