Theatre Specialist Scrub – Cleft & Plastics
The closing date is 04 June 2026
The post holder will work in the Birmingham Children’s Hospital clinical theatre areas to assure high standards of clinical care by providing direction, advice and intervention.
The post holder will contribute to the achievement of clinical group and corporate objectives and the required local and national quality and governance standards by ensuring that all required audits, assessments and reviews are completed within the agreed timeframes that action plans are regularly monitored and integrated into clinical practice within the designated area of responsibility.
The post holder will assist in the development of theatre practitioners and Theatre Support Staff, which will be directly employed by the service and/or on rotation.
The post holder will be accountable for ensuring the quality of the patient and family experience during their peri‑operative journey, through evidence‑based nursing/theatre practice, including collaboration with the multi‑disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will demonstrate extensive expert clinical knowledge and skills in cleft surgery, hand surgery, facial palsy and allograft surgery. It is expected that they will work in theatre attire in the clinical environment whilst undertaking their specialist role—demonstrating specialist skills which will support others in the area to learn and teach safely and effectively.
The post holder will actively participate in service provision of the theatres department undertaking regular out of hours shifts, weekend shifts, general and/or specialty on‑calls, providing specialty skills and knowledge to support service delivery and to ensure that safety standards are maintained whilst supporting and teaching junior members of the team to deliver professional evidence‑based care.
The post holder will work alongside their theatre lead to ensure their specialty has the right skills available for their service, as well as the right equipment, that their team knows how to use in the safe delivery of high standards of care.
About us
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world‑class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world‑leading neonatal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family‑centred care.
Birmingham Children’s Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women’s Hospital is one of two dedicated women’s hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- NMC registration part 1, or HCPC registration
- Evidence of continued professional development related to theatres
- Recognised leadership qualification or willing to undertake
- Educated degree or equivalent experience
- Recognised teaching and assessing qualification for mentorship
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
- Extensive experience in theatres at senior practitioner level
- Knowledge and understanding of operational nursing/theatre issues in a specialist trust
- Knowledge and understanding of current nursing policy and practice issues
- Knowledge & experience of child protection/safe guarding
- Knowledge & understanding of infection control
- Experience of audit and research
- Knowledge & understanding of patient/public involvement, management of complaints and investigations
Analytical and Judgement Skills
- Judgement involving facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
Professional / Managerial / Specialist Knowledge
- Proactive, self‑motivated, with the ability to motivate others
- Ability to manage own workload and that of others and supervise that of others
- Responsible for policy implementation and service development for own work area
- Responsible for staff roster allocation
- Able to use the Allocate E roster system
- Conversant with Microsoft Office and able to operate and interpret spreadsheets
Personal Skills / Abilities and Attributes
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, engaging in complex communication situations where information is highly sensitive
- Knowledge, understanding in risk management and governance issues
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.
£39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum/pro rata
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