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Senior Theatre Practitioner


Location
Tunbridge Wells
Deadline
11 Sep 2026
Posted Date
14 Aug 2026
Medical Protection — the side of locally employed doctors from £83

Senior Theatre Practitioner / SFA

Tunbridge Wells | Theatre | Permanent | Full Time

Up to £46,500 per annum, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Wherever you’re currently working, Nuffield Health is where you’ll excel. As the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity, we can offer you a unique opportunity to feel valued, free from constraints and able to grow your career, while you’re helping us offer the highest standards of care.

Transforming patient care, focusing on what matters. It starts with you.

As a Senior Theatre Practitioner at our Tunbridge Wells Hospital, you’re registered with the appropriate governing body and you hold the relevant qualifications and experience, including HCPC registration. You bring a passion for high standards in perioperative care, a meticulous eye for detail and post-registration experience. You’re a focused, flexible and motivated team worker.

As a Senior Theatre Practitioner, you will:

  • Prioritise patient safety, taking appropriate actions and encouraging colleagues to call out and report safety concerns.
  • Promote a safe working environment for patients, visitors and staff (in full compliance with all policies and procedures).
  • Support governance activity, ensuring full compliance with Nuffield Health’s Quality governance framework and national standards, e.g. CQC/HIW/HIS Regulation, fundamentals of care, professional standards and evidence-based guidelines.
  • Provide and lead care management and delivery, treating patients, families, friends and representatives with kindness, dignity, respect and compassion and support them to cope emotionally with their care, treatment or condition.
  • Collaborate with other clinicians within the Hospital, building strong working relationships that enhance patient care and service delivery.
  • Take charge of a theatre, co-ordinating and delivering work activities and leading junior practitioners.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital.

The Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital are recognised for their friendly atmosphere, clinical expertise, and high standards of care. Our purpose-built hospital has been established since 1968. With 40 en-suite bedrooms, a busy outpatients and pre-assessment departments. We also provide a diagnostic imaging service (MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Mammography and X-ray), pathology, paediatric unit, surgical recovery ward, cancer care unit, 3 state of the art operating theatres and physiotherapy services.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.

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