# Theatre Scheduling Officer, Band 3

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Cheltenham
- **Region:** South West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 (pa pro rata if part-time)
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-26T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17T13:01:11.314Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Gloucester/Gloucestershire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Theatre_Scheduling/Theatre_Scheduling-v8074241
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8074241?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Theatre Scheduling Officer, Band 3 (30 hours a week)

This is an exciting role within the theatre team where you will be working with a dynamic team to ensuring that the theatre floorplan is maintained, updated and disseminated rapidly and efficiently, on a regular basis, with the purpose of preventing any personnel logistical errors

### Main duties of the job

- A fully-utilised  theatre resource which impacts partially on the Trust’s ability to achieve the national activity targets and fully impacts on the Trust’s ability to achieve the surgical waiting times target

-  A tool for the use of the theatre and anaesthetic staff to allocate resources, human, equipment and stocks to the right theatre at the right time. Without this function, patients would be cancelled, which, again, would impact on the Trust’s RTT and CWT targets

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached detailed job description and person specification for further details of this exciting role

## Person Specification

### Communication

**Essential**

- Must have excellent communication skills to be able to negotiate with staff in circumstances that require good listening skills and tact
- Ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems
- Good communication and negotiation skills

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Previous experience on the use of TrakCare. FDP or other relevant hospital systems preferable

### Organisational skills

**Essential**

- An excellent understanding of the need to maintain accurate patient information (which is regarded as highly confidential) and keep it securely on both the computer system and paper records

**Desirable**

- Must be aware of the Trust activity targets and constantly evaluate decisions against these objectives
- bility to analyse performance data to identify areas for improvement

## Documents

- [why work for us - rewards and benefits (pdf, 3.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2952)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 512.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10466300)

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