Recovery Team Leader
Closing date: 28 May 2026
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.
Main duties of the job
- 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.
About us
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 pride ourselves on supporting our staff and offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, flexible working options, 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 offers a variety of services.
Person Specification
Experience
- Excellent clinical skills within specialty
- Proven Senior Recovery Practitioner level with knowledge of list suite management
- Team development and coaching experience
- Teaching experience
- Evidence of leadership and management experience as Senior Recovery Practitioner
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse Part 1
- Evidence of post‑registration qualification/specialist development.
- Undertaken or willing to undertake recognised management course.
- Recovery Specialist Practice Award or similar.
Knowledge
- Problem‑solving approach
- Day‑to‑day management responsibilities
- Resource management within team
- Excellent clinical skills within the post‑operative setting
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.
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