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Senior Theatre Practitioner/Resus Lead

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Location
Haywards Heath
Profession
Nurse practitioner
Deadline
18 Aug 2026
Posted Date
21 Jul 2026
Medical Protection — the side of locally employed doctors from £83

Senior Theatre Practitioner & Resus Lead (RGN/ODP)

Haywards Heath Hospital | Permanent | Nursing | Permanent | Full Time

Up to £44,000 per annum dependent 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 (RGN/ODP) at our Haywards Heath 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 (RGN/ODP), 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 Haywards Heath Hospital

Opened in 1993 and close to the centre of Haywards Heath, the Nuffield Health Haywards Heath Hospital provides a wide range of medical services from minor procedures through to major surgical specialties. With three operating theatres – 1 is laminar flow, comprehensive outpatient facilities including a 3T MRI scanner, an excellent onsite pre-assessment clinic, physiotherapy department and 26 en-suite rooms on the ward.

Ours is a well-planned hospital with a clean, modern environment. We are proud of our consistently high standards of patient care which is delivered by our fantastic team throughout the whole patient journey.

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

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.

It starts with you.

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