Job summary
Theatre Practitioner
37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Closing Date: 20th May 2025
Interview Date: 2nd June 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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Recently rated as 'GOOD' by the CQC
This role would involve working within Theatres as a Theatre Practitioner in Anaesthetics, Scrub and Recovery, or at least of the 2 of the 3 areas.
The post holder will work with the multi-disciplinary team members in monitoring and maintaining policies, Standards of NMC/HCPC care and staff development, as part of the perioperative team.
You should act as a role model showing evidence of the specialist skills and knowledge that will enable you to deliver prescribed treatment and care for patients in an individual and sensitive manner.
Show a willingness to learn new skills for own Professional Development.
Main duties of the job
- Strive for the continuous improvements in the delivery of high-quality patient focused care.
- To have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the Trust's vision and EXCEL values and behave in a way that reflects these.
- Assist in the provision of assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of patients in the perioperative environment.
- Being sensitive to our patients and staff needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and always ensuring a friendly environment.
- As skills develop, manage the Theatre area in the absence of the Team Leaders, maintain safe staffing levels, ensuring that polices are always adhered to, and the Senior Theatre team remain updated.
- Assists the Professional Development Team in the management of preceptorship of newly qualified staff, return to practice staff and the mentorship of Nursing /ODP students and theatre support workers.
- Show a willingness to learn new skills for own Professional Development
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Maintaining a safe and clean environment within the clinical area in accordance with the Trusts Policies and guidelines
- Deliver a high standard of perioperative care based upon a sound evidence base.
- Provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.
- Maintaining timely and accurate patient care documentation, ensuring that confidentiality is respected.
- Creates and utilizes opportunities to promote health and wellbeing of patients in our care.
- Communicating with and assisting the multidisciplinary team to always promote excellence in the delivery of patient care.
- Leads a perioperative team to manage a group of patients throughout a shift
- Working within the NMC/HCPC Guidelines and Trust Policies recognising ones own abilities and limitations.
- To ensure 24-hour cover, working rotational shifts to include earlies, lates, nights, weekends, and Bank Holidays.
- Ensure that adequate resources are available to meet the needs of the patients and contribute to cost improvement programmes.
- Contribute to the maintenance of appropriate stock levels and have an awareness of materials management.
- Ensure that all equipment for patient use is kept in good working order in line with current Regulations.
- Ensure that adequate skill mix is available to meet the needs of the patients. If deficits are unavoidable, contact the appropriate Senior Staff for support.
- Ensure that concerns and complaints from patients, visitors or colleagues are resolved where possible and reported to the Team Leader / Senior Team Leader
- Deputise for the Team Leader as and when necessary.
- Ensures that the Team Leader/Senior Team Leader is informed of any Professional concerns at the earliest opportunity
- Ensure that Revalidation requirements for NMC/HCPC Registration areadhered.
- To act as an ambassador for the clinical environment promoting aprofessional image of a Theatre Practitioner role
- Assist senior colleagues with duty rostering
- Having an awareness of skill mix and its appropriateness in maintaining service needs
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Maintaining a safe and clean environment within the clinical area in accordance with the Trusts Policies and guidelines
- Deliver a high standard of perioperative care based upon a sound evidence base.
- Provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.
- Maintaining timely and accurate patient care documentation, ensuring that confidentiality is respected.
- Creates and utilizes opportunities to promote health and wellbeing of patients in our care.
- Communicating with and assisting the multidisciplinary team to always promote excellence in the delivery of patient care.
- Leads a perioperative team to manage a group of patients throughout a shift
- Working within the NMC/HCPC Guidelines and Trust Policies recognising ones own abilities and limitations.
- To ensure 24-hour cover, working rotational shifts to include earlies, lates, nights, weekends, and Bank Holidays.
- Ensure that adequate resources are available to meet the needs of the patients and contribute to cost improvement programmes.
- Contribute to the maintenance of appropriate stock levels and have an awareness of materials management.
- Ensure that all equipment for patient use is kept in good working order in line with current Regulations.
- Ensure that adequate skill mix is available to meet the needs of the patients. If deficits are unavoidable, contact the appropriate Senior Staff for support.
- Ensure that concerns and complaints from patients, visitors or colleagues are resolved where possible and reported to the Team Leader / Senior Team Leader
- Deputise for the Team Leader as and when necessary.
- Ensures that the Team Leader/Senior Team Leader is informed of any Professional concerns at the earliest opportunity
- Ensure that Revalidation requirements for NMC/HCPC Registration areadhered.
- To act as an ambassador for the clinical environment promoting aprofessional image of a Theatre Practitioner role
- Assist senior colleagues with duty rostering
- Having an awareness of skill mix and its appropriateness in maintaining service needs
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Registered Nurse (NMC) / Registered Operating Department Practitioner (HCPC) with a minimum of 12 months post registration within the Perioperative environment
- Experienced Recovery Practitioner
- Experienced Anaesthetic Practitioner
- Experienced Scrub/Circulating Practitioner (General Surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery, Gynaecology, Urology, Trauma & Emergency, Orthopaedics, Day Procedures
- Ability to solve problems and use initiative
- Ability to develop own clinical skills and a willingness to participate in continuing professional development
- Excellent communication skills
- Leadership skills
- Remain calm and supportive
- Enthusiastic
- Positive working relationships
- Ability to motivate others
- Good Health record
- Good organizational skills
- Ability to work under pressure to meet required deadlines
Desirable
- Mentoring & Assessing Qualification
- Post Graduate Qualification
- Evidence of research or clinical audit
- Assessing/Verification Award
- Teaching Qualification
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Registered Nurse (NMC) / Registered Operating Department Practitioner (HCPC) with a minimum of 12 months post registration within the Perioperative environment
- Experienced Recovery Practitioner
- Experienced Anaesthetic Practitioner
- Experienced Scrub/Circulating Practitioner (General Surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery, Gynaecology, Urology, Trauma & Emergency, Orthopaedics, Day Procedures
- Ability to solve problems and use initiative
- Ability to develop own clinical skills and a willingness to participate in continuing professional development
- Excellent communication skills
- Leadership skills
- Remain calm and supportive
- Enthusiastic
- Positive working relationships
- Ability to motivate others
- Good Health record
- Good organizational skills
- Ability to work under pressure to meet required deadlines
Desirable
- Mentoring & Assessing Qualification
- Post Graduate Qualification
- Evidence of research or clinical audit
- Assessing/Verification Award
- Teaching Qualification
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
