• Job Description

  Req#: C9298-THE-0096?language=en&page=179&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Expected Shortlisting Date

  22/08/2025

  Planned Interview Date

  29/08/2025

  We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced individual to join the Paediatric PACU Team based at the Leeds Childrens Hospital, Leeds General Infirmary. We are a 24/7 team, covering emergency and acute work across Yorkshire and the wider surrounding area. This fast paced, ever evolving service runs 365 days a year. Therefore, interested candidates must be available to work unsociable hours, nights and weekends as part of their rota. Together with emergency/acute work, we recover a multitude of specialities, the team also cover a number of additional areas. Our cohort of patients range from neonates to young adults and interested candidates should be able to build a rapport with both patients and their carers to facilitate excellent patient-centred care. Successful applicants will be experienced practitioners with a wide variety of clinical and leadership experience. We are looking for innovative thinkers, with excellent communication and leadership skills.

  Main duties of the job

  Maintain a high standard of patient-focused care in accordance with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust guidelines and policies. Assist the Team Leader in leading and teaching the perioperative teams throughout the 24-hour period. Coordinate activities within the perioperative environment ensuring effective communication is maintained at all times, providing support to all staff within the Department. Act as a role model for the development of clinical skills and knowledge within the perioperative team. Demonstrate teaching and assessing skills with a recognised teaching/assessing qualification.

  Maintain and promote a clean, secure and safe working environment.

  Support the Team Leader in setting and monitoring standards and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care. Support the Team Leader to build an effective and responsive theatre environment.

  Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of perioperative care for patients.

  About us

  Successful applicants will be experienced practitioners with a wide variety of clinical and leadership experience. We are looking for innovative thinkers, with excellent communication and leadership skills. In conjunction with the Team Leader, the successful candidate will ensure effective management of clinical services and efficient deployment of staff according to service needs. The jobholder will play an essential role in ensuring effective management of the Department in the absence of the Team Leader. Support the Team Leader in setting and monitoring standards and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care. Support the Team Leader to build an effective and responsive theatre environment. Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of perioperative care for patients.

  For further information or to arrange a departmental visit please contact Daniel Mckenna or James Fox on 0113 3923210.

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

  Details

  Date posted

  01 August 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £38,682 to £46,580 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  C9298-THE-0096

  Job locations

  Leeds General Infirmary

  Great George Street

  Leeds

  LS13EX

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  As an experienced practitioner the jobholder will co-ordinate activities within the peri-operative environment ensuring effective communication is maintained at all times, providing support to qualified and unqualified staff within the department. He/she will play a key role in the assessment of patient care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care. The jobholder will play an essential role assisting Team Leader in leading and teaching the peri-operative teams throughout the 24 hour period.

  The jobholder will act as a role model, promoting quality evidence-based practice, developing the peri-operative team and ensuring effective management of the department in the absence of the Team Leader.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  As an experienced practitioner the jobholder will co-ordinate activities within the peri-operative environment ensuring effective communication is maintained at all times, providing support to qualified and unqualified staff within the department. He/she will play a key role in the assessment of patient care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care. The jobholder will play an essential role assisting Team Leader in leading and teaching the peri-operative teams throughout the 24 hour period.

  The jobholder will act as a role model, promoting quality evidence-based practice, developing the peri-operative team and ensuring effective management of the department in the absence of the Team Leader.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Significant experience as a Perioperative Practitioner or equivalent within relevant specialities
  • Insight into clinical speciality
  • Working with a wide range of professional colleagues
  • Ability to demonstrate leadership and organisational skills

  Desirable

  • Recruitment and selection
  • Clinical audit and standard setting

  Skills & behaviours

  Essential

  • Teaching and assessing skills
  • Effective communication skills
  • Time management skills
  • Able to work as an independent practitioner and as a team member
  • Ability to act professional at all times
  • Understanding of the process of change

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Registered Nurse or Registered Operating Department Practitioner Recognised teaching/assessing qualification

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Significant experience as a Perioperative Practitioner or equivalent within relevant specialities
  • Insight into clinical speciality
  • Working with a wide range of professional colleagues
  • Ability to demonstrate leadership and organisational skills

  Desirable

  • Recruitment and selection
  • Clinical audit and standard setting

  Skills & behaviours

  Essential

  • Teaching and assessing skills
  • Effective communication skills
  • Time management skills
  • Able to work as an independent practitioner and as a team member
  • Ability to act professional at all times
  • Understanding of the process of change

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Registered Nurse or Registered Operating Department Practitioner Recognised teaching/assessing qualification

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals

  Address

  Leeds General Infirmary

  Great George Street

  Leeds

  LS13EX

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals

  Address

  Leeds General Infirmary

  Great George Street

  Leeds

  LS13EX

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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