Senior Clinician Theatres & Endoscopy

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.

About us

Being the smallest Health Board in Wales means that you won't get lost in the crowd. Everybody at Powys Teaching Health Board is valued for the contribution they make to our varied and diverse portfolio of community-based services. Together, we can continue to make a real difference to our patients and build on our unrivalled reputation.

As a supportive and progressive employer, we actively encourage you to carve out a career with us, through a range of development pathways. We're also lucky enough to be situated in one of the most beautiful rural counties in Britain, let alone Wales! Achieving a healthy 'life work' balance is essential, and something we recognise by prioritising your well-being.

To start your journey with us, and to learn more about what we can offer you please visit: https://pthb.nhs.wales/working-for-us/. There you will find information about our benefits and values, read staff experiences and more about what our beautiful county has to offer.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• 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 ongoing professional development.
• Teaching Certificate or similar.

Experience

• 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

• 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.

Other

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