Clinical Practice Lead - Theatres
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Southport, PR8 6PNView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
27 October 2026
7 days leftJob description
Full Time Permanent Post The post holder will have responsibility for leading, facilitating and developing education, training and workforce developme...
- Provide clinical leadership through maintaining a 50% clinical role within theatre services.
- Lead and coordinate education, training and workforce development activities across Southport and Ormskirk theatres.
- Support student placements and practice learning environments.
- Lead on medical device training and competency assurance.
- Promote evidence-based practice, research and quality improvement.
- Support workforce planning, succession planning and staff retention initiatives.
- Contribute to policy development and clinical governance activities.
- Develop collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Support achievement of operational, quality, workforce and financial objectives.
- Act as a professional role model and advocate for high standards of perioperative care and education.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC/HCPC registration
- Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience
- Post graduate qualification in mentorship or equivalent experience
Desirable: - Post graduate certificate in leadership; - North West Simulation Education Network Educational qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge
Essential: - Clinical experience within a surgical environment in theatres; - Knowledge and expertise of Surgical speciality/specialities as a scrub practitioner
Desirable: - Knowledge and experience of other surgical specialities
Skills
Essential: - IT skills; - Excellent communication skills
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
20 October 2026
Last checked
20 October 2026
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