Senior Clinician Theatres & Endoscopy: Sponsorship Available

Powys Teaching Health Board

Job summary

Powys Teaching Health Board has a fantastic and exciting opportunity for a Senior Clinician to provide strong clinical leadership managing theatre endoscopy, bowel screening, and the service wide Planned Care Quality & Safety agenda. As the Senior Clinician for Theatres & Endoscopy (Lead for Planned Care Quality & Safety), you will drive service development, champion high standards of care, and ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and patient-centred services. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, in reach providers, the National Planned Care Programme leads you will lead on workforce, performance, governance, quality improvement agendas, ensuring our services meet national standards and deliver excellent patient outcomes. This is a highly influential position requiring advanced clinical expertise, proven leadership, and the ability to shape and develop services at a strategic level within a complex healthcare environment.

Please note this post will be based at Brecon War Memorial Hospital, however you will be required to travel across our sites.

Main duties of the job

Provide professional leadership for Theatre, Endoscopy, and Decontamination services across Planned Care. Act as the Health Board’s clinical expert for all Theatre and Endoscopy matters. Lead and line manage Theatre/Endoscopy teams and the Bowel Screening Wales Specialist Screening Practitioner, including appraisals, sickness, disciplinary processes, and workforce planning. Lead the Quality and Safety agenda across Planned Care, including risk management and governance. Investigate and resolve adverse incidents, complaints, and undertake root cause analysis. Ensure completion of clinical audits, quality measures, and compliance with national standards (including JAG accreditation). Lead the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and service improvement initiatives. Collect, analyse and present service performance data to inform decision making and improve delivery. Develop and deliver training programmes in collaboration with education leads. Promote best practice, research, and a culture of continuous professional development. Establish strong multi disciplinary, regional, and national partnerships to enhance service delivery. Ensure safe, efficient operational service delivery across Theatre and Endoscopy. Manage service budgets, resource allocation and workforce redesign to meet activity and capacity demands.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

  • Live registration with the NMC
  • Master’s qualification in a relevant clinical area or significant experience to this level
  • Knowledge of current health care issues in Planned Care including Theatres & Endoscopy
  • Knowledge of health service management, including change management and workforce re-design
  • Demonstrable evidence of management qualification or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of on-going professional development
  • Teaching Certificate or similar

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience within a Theatre or Endoscopy at a senior level, demonstrating ability to deliver improvements in patient care
  • Experience of teaching / training / coaching staff
  • Experience of implementing change effectively
  • Effective multi agency team player
  • Ability to lead and manage complexity and unpredictability, to make difficult decisions and solve problems
  • Extensive clinical services management experience, including resource management
  • Experience of leading on Quality and Safety agendas

Skills and Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to use computer systems to a well-developed level (email, word processing, spreadsheets)
  • Well-developed verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills when dealing with highly complex and sensitive information
  • Confident and effective presentation skills to large groups
  • Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Proven ability to work in complex situations with many differing partners
  • Good understanding of how to engage clinicians and patients in defining requirements and implementing solutions
  • Sound judgement and confident with decision making involving highly complex facts or situations across the Health Board
  • Directorate’s portfolio
  • Ability to understand and analyse data, such as Nursing, Performance matrix

Desirable

  • Some ability to speak, read and/or write Welsh, or an eagerness to learn

Other

Essential

  • Ability to travel and work flexibly
  • Ability to work weekends for On-Call duties

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 1 September 2026

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