# Theatre Manager

**Company**: Spire Murrayfield Hospital Edinburgh
**Location**: EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive Salary
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced and inspirational Theatre Manager to lead our established perioperative service at Spire Murrayfield Hospital Edinburgh.

This is an exciting opportunity to take responsibility for a busy and expanding theatre department comprising four operating theatres, including three laminar flow theatres, delivering a broad range of procedures from day case surgery through to complex major orthopaedics and robotic surgery.

As Theatre Manager, you will lead a team of over 50 colleagues, including Registered Nurses, ODPs and Healthcare Assistants, supported by a Deputy Theatre Manager and theatre Team Leads. You will play a key role in shaping the future of the service, driving efficiency, supporting growth and ensuring the highest standards of patient care.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide strategic and operational leadership across the theatre department.

- Lead, motivate and develop a multidisciplinary team of over 50 colleagues.

- Ensure the delivery of safe, effective and outstanding patient care.

- Support service redesign and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Drive theatre utilisation, efficiency and productivity.

- Ensure compliance with clinical governance, quality and patient safety requirements.

- Lead workforce planning, recruitment, retention and colleague development.

- Manage departmental budgets and resources effectively.

- Work collaboratively with consultants and senior hospital leadership to support business growth and development opportunities.

- Foster a culture of clinical excellence, teamwork and patient-centred care.

**Requirements:**

- NMC or HCPC registered practitioner.

- Significant leadership experience within an acute theatre environment.

- Proven experience managing a multidisciplinary perioperative team.

- Strong understanding of theatre operations, AFPP guidance, clinical governance and patient safety.

- Experience leading change and service improvement initiatives.

- Commercial awareness with the ability to balance quality, patient outcomes and operational performance.

- Excellent communication, coaching and leadership skills.

- A passion for developing people and delivering outstanding patient care.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary

- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays

- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options

- ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers

- Free Bupa wellness screening

- Private medical insurance

- Life assurance

- Free parking

## Skills

### Required
- NMC or HCPC registration
- leadership experience
- theatre operations
- clinical governance
- patient safety
- team management
- budget management

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