Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Theatre Orderly

The closing date is 22 February 2026

Job summary

Are you ready to join a dynamic healthcare team and make a meaningful impact on patient care? Kings Mill Hospital is currently seeking dedicated and organised individual to join us as a Theatre Orderly in our Theatre Department. This is a permanent, full-time role with the option for part-time consideration, offering a unique chance to contribute to the smooth operation of our department.

As a Theatre Orderly, you will play a key role in supporting our highly skilled team in the delivery of specialised inpatient and day-case procedures across our many theatres, You will be involved in a wide range of specialities, including: Collecting patients from wards, conducting identification checks and returning patients to the wards.

  • Orthopaedics
  • General Surgery
  • ENT
  • Gynaecology
  • Breast
  • Urology
  • Ophthalmology

We offer a supportive environment where your contributions will make a direct impact on the quality of care we provide to our patients. If you're passionate about healthcare and have a strong organisational mindset, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Details

Date posted

09 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

214-SRG-7755482

Job locations

Kinds Mill Hospital

Mansfield Rd

Sutton In Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Able to maintain patient confidentiality
  • Work effectively with other professions with other professions
  • Team worker
  • Able to communicate effectively
  • Remains calm under pressure
  • Motivated
  • Must understand basic requirements for individualised personal care
  • Awareness of safeguarding issues
  • Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good standard of education in English & Maths
  • Care certificate or commitment to achieving within 2 weeks of commencement

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working as part of a team
  • Previous care work experience
  • Previous face to face customer care experience

Desirable

  • Theatre Portering/ orderly experience or experience in hospital setting

Contractual

Essential

  • Able to work flexibly on a varied shift pattern according to the roster including nights and weekends
Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Able to maintain patient confidentiality
  • Work effectively with other professions with other professions
  • Team worker
  • Able to communicate effectively
  • Remains calm under pressure
  • Motivated
  • Must understand basic requirements for individualised personal care
  • Awareness of safeguarding issues
  • Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good standard of education in English & Maths
  • Care certificate or commitment to achieving within 2 weeks of commencement

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working as part of a team
  • Previous care work experience
  • Previous face to face customer care experience

Desirable

  • Theatre Portering/ orderly experience or experience in hospital setting

Contractual

Essential

  • Able to work flexibly on a varied shift pattern according to the roster including nights and weekends

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kinds Mill Hospital

Mansfield Rd

Sutton In Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kinds Mill Hospital

Mansfield Rd

Sutton In Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Recovery Sister

Helen Westwell

Helen.westwell@nhs.net

01636622515

Details

Date posted

09 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

214-SRG-7755482

Job locations

Kinds Mill Hospital

Mansfield Rd

Sutton In Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Supporting documents

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