Job Description:
Job Title: Lead Angiography Anaesthetic Practitioner
Location: Cromwell Hospital, 164-178 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0TU
Contract: Permanent
Salary range: £Competitive plus Bupa Benefits
Hours: Full-Time, 37.50 hours per week
Role specifics: flexible shift patterns, extended day activity from 8am to 8pm, and on-call commitment.
As a Clinician at Bupa our patients will be your top priority. With no shareholders, we reinvest our profits back into our business to give you the extra time and technology you need to make a difference to our patients each and every day.
Joining Bupa, you'll benefit from access to our state-of-the art Clinical Training Facility, a centre for connected learning, care and careers. This forms part of Bupa Campus, a vibrant new learning initiative which brings us together in virtual and physical spaces across the Bupa globe.
You'll help us make health happen by:
The Lead Anaesthetic Practitioner in Angiography is a pivotal leadership role within our growing Cardiac Services. You'll work in partnership with the Head of Cardiac Services to help shape performance frameworks, develop meaningful KPIs, and drive progress against service goals and improvement milestones.
You'll shape and deliver high standards of operational practice, support the continued development of the angiography service, and bring expert clinical knowledge across a broad range of cardiac, radiology, and vascular anaesthetic procedures.
From induction through to maintenance and recovery, you'll help create a safe, responsive, and patient-centred environment where excellence is the standard.
You'll work closely with and foster strong professional relationship with Theatres, Lead Specialist Nurse in Angiography, the Lead Clinical Cardiac Physiologist for Invasive Diagnostics and Therapies, the Superintendent Radiographer in Angiography, and the scheduling team, to maximise capacity, and ensure the service runs smoothly and efficiently.
Additional responsibilities:
Provide visible leadership across anaesthetic and sedation practice, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care throughout the entire patient pathway (pre, intra, and post-procedure.
Maintain advanced clinical expertise in cardiac, angiography, and interventional procedures, delivering safe anaesthesia, monitoring, and recovery care using specialist equipment.
Ensure patient safety, governance, and clinical excellence, including audits, incident reporting, and adherence to best practice in anaesthesia and sedation.
Support and coordinate day-to-day service delivery, ensuring efficient patient flow, smooth procedures, and high standards of admission and discharge processes.
Oversee staffing levels, rota planning, and resource allocation, ensuring safe staffing and continuity of service delivery.
Lead or contribute to strategic projects, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service performance and patient outcomes.
Work closely with consultants and senior leads (nursing, physiologists, radiographers) to deliver a coordinated, high-performing cardiac service.
Promote a learning culture by mentoring, coaching, and developing staff, and contributing to education programmes across the service.
Provide performance management, feedback, recruitment, and team development, building a high-performing and engaged workforce.
Operate within regulatory frameworks (NMC/HCPC, CQC, governance standards), maintaining accountability, professionalism, and ethical practice at all times.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
Relevant post-qualification clinical experience (essential
Specialist knowledge gained in a Cath Lab environment (essential)
Experience of advanced specialist procedures through accredited training (essential)
Able to perform specialist diagnostic investigations in varied clinical settings (essential)
Experience supervising staff day to day (essential)
Experience leading audits, research, or equipment trials (essential)
Qualifications
NMC Registered Nurse (Adult) or HCPC Registered Operating Department Practitioner (essential)
Diploma or Degree in Healthcare Studies (essential)
Comprehensive cardiac anaesthesia training (essential)
Evidence of ongoing professional development
Benefits:
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing.
We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits. Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
Payment of Professional Registration fees
Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
Access to Bupa Campus and our Clinical Training Facility to support your clinical career development
Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
Discounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass
Various other benefits and online discounts
Free onsite massages as a recognition for your hard work
Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony
Why Bupa?
We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [email protected]
At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately.
Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
Nursing & Theatres
Locations:
Cromwell Hospital London
Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme, Additional leave, Employee mentoring programme, Private medical insurance, Company pension, Paid volunteer time, Private dental insurance, Health & wellbeing programme, Financial planning services, Free flu jabs, Referral programme
