Job overview
Advanced Theatre Practitioner - Scrub
Vacancies in ENT/Max Fax and Orthopeadics
Band 6 (37.5 hours per week)
Croydon University Hospital is seeking an enthusiastic ,caring and motivated individual to join the Theatre team as a Theatre Practitioner.
We are looking for experienced scrub practitioner in ENT/Max fax and orthopaedics.
Demonstrate a commitment to developing yourself and support the various teams. You will act as a role model for others, promoting best practice and delivery of high quality , patient centred care.
Working in Theatre ,you will be rotated through the different specialties , including Emergency ,Trauma Orthopaedic, to ensure excellent patient care is maintained throughout the patient's pathway.Recovery staff will be working in elective,emergency and external areas such as IR, Endoscopy etc.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organization where everyone of our 3600 member staff are valued . We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.
Interviews: 8th July 2026
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be part of the clinical team who ensure that clinical care of patients, and others using the services receive an efficient and quality service.
- prepare the clinical areas (theatre) to receive patient for surgical procedures .
- Provide scrub assistance to surgeon during surgical procedure.
- Assist in patient positioning
- Ensure all documentation on IT system is accurately imputed into the system accordance with Trust and departmental policy and procedures .
- Uniform code
- Maintaining a clean working environment .
- Mentoring and assessing juniors
- In charge of daily theatre list
- PDR of juniors
- teaching and supervising
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification
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This advert is for Advanced Theatre Practitioner with Croydon Health Services NHS Trust in Thornton Heath, London, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £45,953 - £54,254 pa inc HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 21 Jun 2026.
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