Job responsibilities
Job Title: Clinical Specialist Theatres & Interventional Services
Function:In Hospital Services
Location: Homework and Field based
Contract type: Permanent
Salary:Offered on a starting salary of £46,524 per annum with potential banding increments of up to £54,735 over three years.
Closing Date:30th April 2026
Overview of the role/ team.
NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a clinically qualified person (e.g. Registered Nurse, Operating Department Practitioner etc.) to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first.
Our In Hospital Services team plays a vital role in strengthening patient safety and supporting highquality care by working across all clinical areas of a hospital with a major focus on operating theatres and interventional specialties like Cardiology and Radiology. We follow the complete supply journey from procurement to the point of care, ensuring that products, processes, and digital solutions genuinely support frontline staff in delivering safe and efficient patient care.
We are an ambitious, collaborative, and awardwinning team focused on reducing unwarranted variation, preventing avoidable harm, and removing waste so clinicians can spend more time with patients. Working alongside NHS trust partners, national NHS bodies, senior clinical leaders, and innovative technology partners, we help trusts improve the reliability of their clinical workflows, strengthen traceability of highrisk products, and make datadriven improvements that benefit both clinicians and patients.
Joining us means using your clinical expertise to influence change at scale - helping shape how hospitals organise, track, and manage the products that keep patients safe. Your insights will support better decisionmaking, safer care environments, and more efficient clinical services across the NHS. This role is particularly well suited to clinicians with experience in operating theatres or interventional environments, especially implant led specialties such as Orthopaedics and Trauma, with Cath Lab or Interventional Radiology experience also highly relevant. Youll be working closely with theatre teams, scrub practitioners, ODPs, cath lab and interventional staff, supporting the safe use and traceability of highrisk and implantable devices at the point of care.
Following the success of our 19trust pilot programme, we are now expanding and creating a dedicated clinical team to strengthen how we work with clinicians across the specialties we support. This team will play a key role in helping hospitals get the most out of their Inventory Management Systems (IMS) - simple digital tools that help teams know what they have, where it is, and whether its safe to use - improving daytoday communication with clinical staff, building clear and practical governance processes, and using simple but meaningful data to enhance safety, quality, and efficiency. A wellimplemented IMS can reduce unwarranted variation, prevent avoidable errors, and ensure the right products are available when patients need them.
This is an exciting opportunity to help shape how the team develops and to influence improvements that directly support frontline care. Youll contribute to work that makes clinical environments safer and easier to work in, while also helping build a strong clinical evidence base through case studies, shared learning, data insights, and examples of best practice that can be used locally and nationally.
This is a fieldbased role. When not working on site in partner trust hospitals, you will be homebased. Occasional office attendance will be required.
You will be expected to travel extensively to support partner trust workstreams, with travel requirements varying depending on programme needs and potentially including local, regional, and national travel. Travel requirements are supported by a car allowance and expenses in line with policy.
We welcome applications from Registered Nurses, Operating Department Practitioners, or other clinically registered professionals with relevant theatre or interventional experience.
Every day you will
Work independently and alongside supportive colleagues in hospital clinical areas to introduce, embed, and support the use of the Inventory Management System (IMS) and pointofcare barcode scanning into their clinical practice.
Engage clinical teams by explaining why the new system matters, showing how it supports safer care and smoother workflows, and helping staff feel confident about what is changing and when.
Deliver handson training and support clinical areas during golive to build staff confidence with IMS pointofcare tools (with full training provided for you) and help teams settle into the new way of working safely and smoothly.
Guide trust teams to understand, access, and use their own data for safety, quality, and continuous improvement, highlighting key information and encouraging simple, practical reporting rhythms that sustain benefits.
Build strong, positive relationships with clinical sponsors and local champions, acting as a trusted and approachable point of contact who supports teams to embed safer and more reliable ways of working.
What can we offer you?
We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:
- This is a field-based homeworker role. In addition, hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
- We recognise our employees' hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards.
- 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
- We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
- A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
- Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
- 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
- Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.
- NMC fee covered.
NHS Supply Chain, who are we?
Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.
We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations.Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.
What skills will help you thrive in this role?
Strong clinical understanding and confidence working in busy hospital environments, particularly theatres or interventional areas, reflecting the realities of timecritical, safetyfocused patient care and enabling effective engagement with frontline teams.
Experience working with implantable medical devices, highrisk products, or pointofcare documentation in theatres or interventional settings.
Clear and supportive communication skills, enabling you to explain new systems and processes in a practical, accessible way to clinicians at all levels.
Confidence delivering training and supporting others to learn, especially when introducing new technology or ways of working in clinical areas.
An organised and methodical approach, helping you guide teams through change, use simple data effectively, and support trusts to build reliable local processes.
A collaborative and relationshipfocused mindset, allowing you to build trust with clinical sponsors, champions, and frontline staff, and to work positively within a wider NHS Supply Chain team.
Able to work with a high level of autonomy, using sound clinical judgement to manage daytoday issues and knowing when to seek support.
Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us atCareers@supplychain.nhs.uk
Our Inclusive Commitment
At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesnt match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.
