Job summary
Theatre Practitioner - Scrub & Recovery
37.5 hours per week (Weekends and Unsocial hours)
Secondment for 12 months (commencing June/July 2026)
Salary: £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
Closing Date: 5th February 2026
Interview Date: 2nd March 2026 (TBC)
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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- The successful candidate will be an Experienced Orthopaedic Scrub Practitioner who must possess a sound knowledge and experience in Operating Theatres.
- You must be organised, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You must be motivated and enthusiastic with a passion for high quality patient care, and the ability to work well under pressure and flexibly as part of a multi-disciplinary team
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.
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.
If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme - find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- 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
Managerial
- 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
Educational and Training
- Have a positive attitude to continuing professional development to enhance knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for safe and effective perioperative practice.
- Participate in Trust Appraisal System
- Possess a clear understanding of Clinical Governance in relation to standards of care, support of colleagues and audit of given care.
- Participate in the utilisation, evaluation and conduct of audit and research.
- Contribute to preceptoring, mentoring and assessing of colleagues and students in placement.
Professional
- Ensures that the Team Leader/Senior Team Leader is informed of anyprofessional concerns at the earliest opportunity.
- Ensure that Revalidation requirements for NMC/HCPC Registration are adhered
Human Resources
- Assist senior colleagues with duty rostering
- Having an awareness of skill mix and its appropriateness in maintaining service needs
Special Requirements
- Provide on-call/stand-by cover as necessitated by departmental needs
- During night duty, it may be required to call in a second team.
- Pre-check the operating lists (all specialties competent in), to ensure that any special prosthesis required has been ordered.
- Provide cover for extra-theatre activities e.g. maternity, cardiac arrest team, trauma team, external transfers, x-ray,
- Be able to cannulate and administer intravenous drugs
- Be able to catheterise male and female patients.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- 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
Managerial
- 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
Educational and Training
- Have a positive attitude to continuing professional development to enhance knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for safe and effective perioperative practice.
- Participate in Trust Appraisal System
- Possess a clear understanding of Clinical Governance in relation to standards of care, support of colleagues and audit of given care.
- Participate in the utilisation, evaluation and conduct of audit and research.
- Contribute to preceptoring, mentoring and assessing of colleagues and students in placement.
Professional
- Ensures that the Team Leader/Senior Team Leader is informed of anyprofessional concerns at the earliest opportunity.
- Ensure that Revalidation requirements for NMC/HCPC Registration are adhered
Human Resources
- Assist senior colleagues with duty rostering
- Having an awareness of skill mix and its appropriateness in maintaining service needs
Special Requirements
- Provide on-call/stand-by cover as necessitated by departmental needs
- During night duty, it may be required to call in a second team.
- Pre-check the operating lists (all specialties competent in), to ensure that any special prosthesis required has been ordered.
- Provide cover for extra-theatre activities e.g. maternity, cardiac arrest team, trauma team, external transfers, x-ray,
- Be able to cannulate and administer intravenous drugs
- Be able to catheterise male and female patients.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Minimum of 12 months post registration within the Perioperative environment
- Significant Experience Scrub Practitioner within Orthopaedic
- Strong knowledge of orthopaedic instrumentation, implants and surgical techniques
- Ability to anticipate the needs of the surgical team and maintain a safe, efficient surgical site
- Excellent understanding of Infection Control, patient safety and perioperative standards
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Recovery experience
- Registered General Nurse and / or Registered Operating Department Practitioner
Desirable
- Mentoring & Assessing Qualification
- Ability to have positive working relationships
- Able to demonstrate clinical knowledge, skills and expertise
- Provide and receive complex and sensitive information, understanding the barriers to effective communication
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Minimum of 12 months post registration within the Perioperative environment
- Significant Experience Scrub Practitioner within Orthopaedic
- Strong knowledge of orthopaedic instrumentation, implants and surgical techniques
- Ability to anticipate the needs of the surgical team and maintain a safe, efficient surgical site
- Excellent understanding of Infection Control, patient safety and perioperative standards
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Recovery experience
- Registered General Nurse and / or Registered Operating Department Practitioner
Desirable
- Mentoring & Assessing Qualification
- Ability to have positive working relationships
- Able to demonstrate clinical knowledge, skills and expertise
- Provide and receive complex and sensitive information, understanding the barriers to effective communication
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).
