# Theatre Practitioner (General Theatres)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Royal Berkshire Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (includes weekends, nights and bank holidays)
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-17T15:01:22.851Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Berkshire/Reading/Royal_Berkshire_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Theatres_General_Surgery/Theatres_General_Surgery-v8320240
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8320240?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Band 5 Theatre Practitioner (General Theatres)

PLEASE NOTE: Sponsorship is not normally available for this vacancy - applicants must have the right-to-work in the UK for this role by their proposed start date.

You will be working as part of a highly skilled General and Emergency theatre team.

Candidates interested in developing a career in theatres will have the opportunity to develop a range of relevant skills as we have a dedicated education team in place with a comprehensive education strategy which underpins the development of all grades of staff within theatres, facilitating career development and progression.

As a Theatre Practitioner, you will play an important role within our multi-disciplinary theatre team, providing high quality care for our patients.

This opportunity is suited to a practitioner with or without theatre experience.

### Main duties of the job

As a Theatre Practitioner you will:

- Act as scrub practitioner for general and Emergency surgical procedures.
- Communicate effectively within the MDT in order to provide excellent care for patients.
- Preparing operating theatre for surgery as required. To include equipment and supplies required for specific procedures, ensuring appropriate use of resources and minimal waste.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.

### 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

### Skills

**Essential**

- Excellent communication skills
- Adaptable to cope with change/ variable environment

**Desirable**

- Computer skills

### Competencies

**Essential**

- Able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Nurse/ODP with current NMC or HCPC Registration

**Desirable**

- Relevant scrub experience
- Teaching and assessing/mentoring qualification

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 139.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=603)
- [relocation policy (pdf, 572.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1764)
- [behaviours framework 2022 (pdf, 2.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2970)
- [probation policy & procedure (pdf, 559.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1640)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 111.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10641758)

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