45 Arts & Entertainment jobs in the United Kingdom

Theatre Manager – Brand New State-of-the-Art Hospital

£60,000 - Flexible Depending on Experience + Competitive Company Benefits

Cambridge – Cambridgeshire

Full-Time/ Permanent - 40 Hours

Want to be a key part in the opening and success of a BRAND NEW and state of the art hospital?

Would you like to be able to build your own team from the ground up?

Interested in developing your own department policies and procedures?

Compass Associates are proud to have exclusively partnered with Welbeck Health Partners for the opening of their brand-new hospital, boasting 12 specialties equipped with the latest technology and world-renowned consultants dedicated to delivering the best patient experience.

Capitalising on the success of their London flagship hospital, their new site will offer a wide range of medical diagnostic and same-day minimally invasive services, including heart health, lung health, digestive health, ENT, endoscopy, and neurology.

This is a very exciting opportunity for an individual who wants to help to shape a growing, but established healthcare organisation.

Welbeck Health Partners was founded by leading healthcare specialists from the UK and USA who shared a clear vision: to deliver better care and redefine what a healthcare organisation can be.

Welbeck’s unique partnership model empowers clinicians to share in the success of the group while fostering a collaborative environment. It provides a framework for consistent patient pathways, quality assurance across partners, and smooth cross-referrals between specialties.

Joining Welbeck means becoming part of a growing network of high-quality clinics and world-leading healthcare professionals. Welbeck are committed to creating a supportive, values-driven environment where their people can thrive. The company invests in its people, providing ongoing professional development, clear career progression, and the resources needed to excel.

If you’re looking to be part of a purpose-led organisation that is shaping the future of healthcare while fostering a culture of respect, teamwork, and shared success, we’d love to hear from you.

What is in it for you?

• *Generous Annual Bonus Scheme*
• Paid for park and ride
• Great work-life balance
• Professional registration paid for annually
• Personal Development Plan
• 27 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• Private Medical Insurance
• Eye Care
• Annual Flu Vaccines
• Private Pension
• Season Ticket Loan / Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• AND a range of policies supporting health and wellbeing

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Theatre Manager to provide excellent clinical and managerial leadership for the delivery of exemplary planned surgical care for patients in the operating theatres. This position will play a pivotal role in overseeing the day-to-day organisation and management of care provision within the theatre suite, including the management of pre-operative assessment and the patient’s peri-operative stay. This will require oversight of clinical practice, resource management, clinician engagement, safe staffing provision and financial management, to ensure that the centre meets all regulatory requirements and safety standards. This is role is line managed by the Clinical Services Director but will also work closely with the Centre Director as the Registered Manager, Director of Anaesthesia and Centre Medical Director.

Responsibilities:

• Promoting clinical leadership through all aspects of the role by initiating optimal clinical standards and facilitating effective communications with clinicians and teams.
• Creating, applying and monitoring governance systems to ensure the implementation of the Welbeck Quality Assurance and Governance Strategy.
• Promote and embed a culture of informed questioning, challenge, trend analysis and information triangulation to ensure lessons are learned
• Lead and co-ordinate the site’s clinical governance and quality assurance programmes to ensure safe and high-quality patient care
• Review and analyse quality, safety, and governance data, using Welbeck systems to identify trends, and deliver improvement actions
• Produce high-quality governance reports for the Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Committee and other governance committees
• Support the hospital in achieving and maintaining a ‘Good’ or higher rating in regulatory inspections
• Manage the complaints process, ensuring that all complaints are investigated and appropriately closed with a focus on learning and resolution

What can you bring?

• NMC or HCPC registered practitioner with perioperative leadership experience
• Extensive background in anaesthetics, scrub, or recovery within operating theatre setting
• Demonstrable team management experience within a clinical setting with skills in influencing, coaching and developing others
• Demonstrable planning and organisational skills including labour management and workforce efficiency
• Understanding of AfPP guidance on staffing and its practice implementation
• Working with IT systems and data analysis, including theatre allocation and utilisation tools
• Experience of CQC inspections and/or readiness
• Ability to lead audits, investigations and quality improvement projects

Interested?

If you're a Theatre Manager seeking your next step, we’d love to hear from you.

Contact Information

Ben Warnes

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Deputy General Manager – Arts & Entertainment Venue

Up to £38,000 + Excellent benefits & Development

Winchester

Due to an internal promotion, we are looking for a charismatic, customer centric leader to help drive the commercial performance and improve the overall customer experience of a wonderful arts, music and entertainment venue hosting live events, workshops, exhibitions, holiday programmes and talks in the heart of Winchester.

This role is the perfect opportunity to make your mark, and high performance will be rewarded with opportunities to support the wider business and progression over time.

Key responsibilities:

• Coach and inspire the service teams to go above and beyond for their customers and the business.
• Manage the venue through the daily peaks and troughs of trading, ensuring you have the right people in the right places to improve the customer experience.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the venue, ensuring it is clean, safety compliant and in good working order.
• Ensure sales opportunities are maximised across ticketing, retail, food and beverage and events through creative thinking, a clear strategy and strong leadership.
• Introduce and embed the organisations new balance scorecard system.
• Act as the General Manager in their absence including every other weekend.
• Support the General Manager on developing the overall business strategy to improve commercial performance.

Benefits

• Opportunity to develop and evolve the role further.
• Ongoing mentoring and development to support with future advancement to General Manager and beyond.
• Working for a large, supportive, inclusive, fun organisation with a genuine purpose to enrich the lives of the communities they serve.
• 5% employee/7.5% employer pension
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Life assurance 3x annual salary
• Health cash plan.
• Discounts on retail, leisure, going out and holidays
• Generous occupational maternity, paternity, adoption and sick pay.
• Working a 37-hour week mainly 9-5.

The person

• Hands-on business minded leader with fantastic hospitality skills.
• Experienced in coaching and inspiring teams to improve performance within a similar environment such as performing arts, theatres, live events venues, recreational facilities, entertainment venues, or visitor attractions.
• Multi-faceted operations experience possibly as a Deputy General Manager, Operations Manager, Customer Service Manager, Visitor Experience Manager, Centre Manager or Venue Manager.
• Can provide evidence of improving sales, service and operational performance in previous roles.
• Experience of managing budgets and interpreting income and expenditure lines to make business improvements.
• Experience in taking on and implementing new projects for a business.
• Ideally experience in implementing balance scorecard type metrics.
• Have your own transport or living local to Winchester.
• Able to work a couple of evenings a week for events and every other weekend.
• Ideally have an interest in music, arts, and culture and enriching the lives of the local community.

For further information, please click apply with your CV we will be in touch promptly if you have the right level of experience.

A new position of Senior Product Development Manager has been created to support an expanding brand licensing programme for a global IP owner within the arts and entertainment space. It’s a fresh multi-category programme with plenty of scope for originality and premium product ranges for consumers across a variety of generations and cultures.

This will suit an experienced product development manager who is excited by the opportunity to establish new structure and set up efficient processes to run a growing department. The Senior Product Development Manager will play a pivotal role in driving the growth and success of the global consumer products & merchandise (CPM) business. Reporting into the Head of Licensing, this position will manage and expand product across in-venue merchandise, third-party retail, and direct-to-consumer (DTC) / eCommerce channels.

The ideal candidate will bring strong commercial acumen, a deep understanding of the creative process and development of licensed goods, and exceptional relationship management skills. This role will be instrumental in driving the consumer products business through the development of best-in class product across fashion & lifestyle, toys & games and publishing both directly and in collaboration with agents.

So, what will you be doing?

• With Head of Licensing (CPM), develop product development strategy in line with the franchise strategy and core brand values.
• With agents, develop a deep understanding of key markets to inform creative and range planning development.
• Own relationships with creative & product development team at agent level and designers at licensee & retail level.
• Establish meeting cadence including implementation of regular range review and planning sessions and build out product development roadmap informed by franchise strategy, sales data and market trends.
• On-going day to day management of agent partners and licensees across territories to drive product development success and meet commercial targets. 
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal departments to ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Conduct regular global and market specific trend and cultural research to stay ahead of evolving consumer preferences and competitive activity to inform product range and development. 
• Use market trends and consumer insights to inform product roadmap and identify new product categories, brands, licensees, and retailers to work with.
• Create and deliver directional tools such as pitch decks, seasonal trend & look books, white space analyses, and competitor benchmarking to unlock new revenue opportunities and continuously push and evolve creative boundaries. 
• With Director of Development, formulate and implement creative asset development strategy and 
• Work with internal stakeholders to implement approval system and manage the end-to-end product development process, from concept through to execution.
• Implement range planning tools, product trackers, and commercial critical paths to ensure timely product launches aligned with revenue goals.
• Merchandising support of in venue and third-party retailers to ensure product ranges are optimised in retail environment to attract audiences and drive sales.
• Represent the company at key trade fairs, retail summits, and industry events to build relationships and identify new commercial opportunities.
• Manage all incoming samples and set up and run cataloguing and storage solution.

What would we like you to bring? 

• Proven track record in product development at a multi-market and category level.  Demonstrating an understanding and interpretation of market nuances, differentiation between retailers, channel and category.  
• A deep understanding of how to interpret brands and their audiences and create relevant retailers, categories and products. 
• Broad multi-category design and manufacturing knowledge such as graphic application, print techniques, tooling 3D products, stability testing, packaging, display and merchandising solutions.
• Team player with great communicative skills who builds strong, collaborative partnerships across internal teams and external stakeholders. 
• Creative problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment, navigates change with agility and a nimble solution-focused mindset, making smart decisions that drive commercial impact.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage multiple projects efficiently, prioritise effectively, and consistently meet deadlines.
• Experience of briefing and working with designers and design agencies.
• Design skills an advantage.

If this sounds like a great opportunity to apply your expertise in product development to establish a new department, then we’d love to hear from you. Please apply with a copy of your CV, or email Rachel Steele at