# Recovery Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/recovery-practitioner/e4521c1e-51ae-4d3e-8318-c554e62f4f6a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/recovery-practitioner/e4521c1e-51ae-4d3e-8318-c554e62f4f6a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** Stoke Mandeville Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Practitioner - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum (pro rata for part time) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-22T13:30:43.344Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Buckinghamshire/Aylesbury/Buckinghamshire_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Recovery/Recovery-v8335504 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8335504?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have an exciting opportunity within the Recovery team for enthusiastic and dynamic nurses wanting to develop their critical thinking skills and advanced nursing skills in the provision of excellent perioperative care and patient experience. Recovery Units consist of four areas which cover a full variety of specialities including specialities such as plastics, spinal surgery, paediatrics, gynaecology, orthopaedic and trauma. The post holder will be a registered nurse with previous surgical nursing experience. Be a good communicator and able to work as part of a team and on their own initiative. Be willing to undertake specialist training. The successful candidate will work as part of a team who cover across site working with our recovery team in High Wycombe. We have a tradition of excellence and our vision is simple, to provide a gold standard in peri-operative practice, and invest in you the people who deliver care. We are seeking enthusiastic and committed individuals to join our team. ### Main duties of the job The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development and/or implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients undergoing theatre procedures. To provide highly skilled assistance in all areas of the operating department and associated areas, and act as a professional member of the theatre team. He/she is expected to carry out all relevant forms of care, maintaining a highly skilled standard of nursing care within the framework of Trust policies. The post holder will teach, supervise and motivate qualified and unqualified staff including basic and/or post basic students (Nurses and Operating Department Practitioners), back to nursing students and health care assistants. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert. If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application. If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Desirable** - Experience in scrub, recovery or anaesthetics. ### Skills, Abilities and Knowledge **Essential** - Evidence of excellent interpersonal skills - Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English - Complaints procedure training - Ability to communicate with patients (and their relatives or carers) who may have some a range of complex health care issues, and a variety of sensory/communication/ physical /mental health /language needs **Desirable** - Working knowledge of the NHS and structures/procedures - Sound knowledge of theatre practice and perioperative Issues - IT Skills ### Education, Qualifications and Training **Essential** - RGN / or ODP with appropriate registration - NMC or HPC registration **Desirable** - MSPP/ENB 998 ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 160.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10715385) - [person specification (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10715386) - [functional requirements (pdf, 136.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10715387) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.