Lead Theatre Practitioner – Robotics

Location: The Harborne Hospital, Birmingham

Salary: Competitive + Benefits

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: Monday–Friday, occasional Saturdays, short & long days

Step into a role that places you at the forefront of robotic surgery within one of the UK’s most advanced new private hospitals. The Harborne Hospital—part of HCA Healthcare UK—is a £100 million, purpose‑built, 50‑bed multi‑speciality hospital designed to deliver complex care with precision, innovation and world‑class clinical standards.

As our Lead Theatre Practitioner for Robotics, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing our robotic surgery service. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Theatre Practitioner with strong expertise in robotic-assisted surgery—including platforms such as da Vinci—to lead, influence and elevate the quality of perioperative care across our theatres.

Working in partnership with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, The Harborne Hospital delivers full clinical pathways across specialties including urology, colorectal, gynaecology, thoracic, and complex surgery. Robotics is a key part of our surgical strategy, and this role is central to driving excellence, safety and innovation.

About the Role

As Robotics Lead, your focus is on delivering exceptional patient care while guiding and inspiring the theatre team. Leadership sits at the heart of this role—ensuring safe, efficient and evidence‑based practice throughout the robotic surgical pathway.

Daily responsibilities include coordinating robotic theatre lists, supporting surgeons and anaesthetists, ensuring equipment readiness, and acting as the go‑to specialist for robotic systems. You’ll champion best practice, mentor colleagues, and help build a confident, highly skilled robotics team.

You’ll work closely with the Surgical Services Manager on staffing, training, appraisals and service development, ensuring resources are used effectively and the robotics service continues to grow. Maintaining a safe, aseptic environment and ensuring equipment is checked, functional and compliant is essential.

There may be opportunities to deputise for the Surgical Services Manager, and you’ll play a key role in supporting performance, wellbeing and professional development across the theatre team.

At its core, this role is about leadership, innovation and delivering outstanding patient outcomes through robotic surgery.

What You’ll Bring

• Experienced Theatre Practitioner (Nurse or ODP)
• NMC or HCPC registration
• Significant experience in robotic-assisted surgery (e.g., da Vinci)
• Strong understanding of perioperative robotics workflows

Why HCA UK?

Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers. In the UK, we’re one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing.

We believe that by caring for our employees, we empower them to provide exceptional care for our patients. That’s why we offer a host of flexible benefits that reflect the invaluable contribution they make every day. As a Lead Theatre Practitioner at The Harborne Hospital you’ll be eligible for:

• 25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you
• Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals
• Private pension contribution which increases with length of service
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme
• Group Life Assurance from day one
• Critical illness cover
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
• Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland
• Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you
• Discounts with over 800 major retailers

Culture and values

At HCA UK we believe exceptional care starts with our people. We celebrate the unique perspectives and different experiences each of us bring as we know that when you feel seen, heard and supported you can be at your best for our patients, and each other.

Our mission is simple, above all else we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life, a clear statement that extends to both our patients and colleagues. To achieve this, we live and breathe four core values:

• Unique and Individual: We recognise and value everyone as unique and individual
• Kindness and compassion: We treat people with kindness and compassion
• Honesty, integrity and fairness: - We act with absolute honesty, integrity and fairness
• Loyalty, respect and dignity: We trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family with loyalty, respect and dignity

Reasonable adjustments

We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their full self to work and be afforded the same opportunities. As a Disability Confident committed organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to suit your needs as well as offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, and in the workplace, to anyone that needs them.