Job summary
- Main area
- Operation Manager
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (n/a)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (n/a)
- Job ref
- 384-AR-EMF20691
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Royal Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £59,798 - £67,020 per annum pro rata includig HCAS High Cost Area Supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Theatre Operations Manager B8a
Band 8a
Job overview
The Royal Surrey is seeking to appoint a Theatres Operation Manager within the Trusts Surgical Division. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced operational manager that will help deliver efficient, effective and high-quality patient centred services. They will provide strategic planning, service development and driving innovation, modernisation and high levels of staff and patient satisfaction.
This is an exciting time to join the Surgical Division within the Royal Surrey: we provide a large range of surgical services to our local population, as well as delivering extensive regional cancer services. We have one of the largest multi-disciplinary surgical robotic programmes nationally in conjunction with a high quality critical care service.
This year we will complete the building of the Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre at our Guildford site (the Royal Surrey Hospital), which will provide six new operating theatres and well as brand new recovery and admission areas. The role will be part of the senior team responsible delivering patient pathways to ensure effective patient flow across the new Surgical Cancer and Innovation Centre and existing main theatre environment.
Main duties of the job
As Theatre Operations Manager, you will play a key leadership role in delivering safe, efficient and high-quality surgical services across our operating theatres. Working closely with clinical colleagues, you will lead day-to-day operations, ensuring excellent patient flow, maximising theatre utilisation, and delivering performance against key national targets.
You will drive service improvement, lead and develop teams, and ensure effective use of workforce and financial resources. You will also champion innovation and transformation, helping to modernise services and improve patient outcomes.
With a strong focus on quality and governance, you will oversee performance, manage risks, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards, while providing visible and proactive operational leadership across the theatres service.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refere to the full job description & person specification
The Theatre Operations Manager is jointly responsible along with the Clinical Director and Theatre Matron for providing leadership and operational management of the operating theatres. This post is accountable to the Head of Service for Theatres, Anaesthetics & Critical Care, working together to ensure efficient and effectively delivery of elective + non-elective surgical services whilst maintaining high-quality patient care.
The post is responsible for the leadership, coordination and operation management of the operating theatres and is responsible for monitoring and delivering Theatre performance across all specialties against national and local targets. Demonstrating this through the theatres Specialist Business Unit within the Surgery Division, with the post playing a key role in identifying opportunities for clinical innovation and modernisation, the delivery of operational performance targets, financial management, theatre capacity management.
Strategic Responsibility
· Working with the Clinical Director and Theatre Matron provide leadership to the SBU to ensure the effective delivery of clinical and non - clinical services.
· Lead & Support the development of the Theatres SBU’s strategic direction in line with Trust Strategy and prioritises.
· To work with and provide support to the Service Managers across the Surgery Division to develop short, medium and long-term objectives which in turn are affordable and achievable annual service plans for the theatre SBU and the portfolio, and deliver these plans within the financial resources available.
· Formulate new service development initiatives, ensuring business cases are produced, taking into account Trust governance and standing financial instruction, activity and income projections.
· Lead Quality Improvement projects including working in partnership with colleagues from other divisions within the Trust, and from partner organisations outside the Trust.
· Develop robust mechanisms to ensure clear communication of service plans, objectives and service changes within the SBU ensuring that staff are engaged directly in any review and development of services.
· Develops and maintains effective communication systems within theatres and across the Trust, as well as with external partners, ensuring timely decision-making, confidentiality of sensitive information, and protection of the Trust’s reputation, especially in high-pressure or escalated situations
· Participate in the Surgical Management duty rota working closely with the Admissions team and Site Nurse Practitioners in ensuring that all surgical patients are placed appropriately and that elective services are both patient and organisation focused.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Project Management qualification or equivalent training/ experience
Desirable criteria
- Master’s degree in healthcare or management or demonstrable ability to work at Masters level
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Operating Theatre management experience
- Understanding of the complexity of cancer services
- Service quality and quality management
- Current changes and developments within the NHS
- Change management theory
Desirable criteria
- Strong financial aptitude and a demonstrable track record of managing budgets and developing business cases
- Previous experience of managing complex services
- Experience of delivering change within the NHS
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Colin Brady
- Job title
- Head Of Service Theatres
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01483 571122
- Additional information
Should you have any questions regarding this post
Please email Colin or call Extention 6972.
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