
Theatre Practitioner – Major Ortho Scrub (Bank)
Exeter Hospital | Nursing | Bank | Ad Hoc |
Up to £26.50 per hour depending on experience
Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity. From our innovative healthcare and leisure facilities to our community access programmes, we’re committed to building a healthier nation. Inside our award-winning hospitals, this starts with commitment to quality and the highest standards of patient care. It starts with you.
As a registered Theatre Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner, you’ll have the qualifications and experience relevant to your registration, including NMC or HCPC. You’ll have post-registration experience in major orthopaedic scrub role, be an excellent communicator and team worker – flexible and motivated.
As part of the wider hospital team you’ll interact with colleagues on the ward because you understand that continuity in patient care is key. Like us, you’re driven by quality. You don’t like to make compromises and we won’t ask you to. We’ll make sure you have everything you need to do a job you’re proud of.
As a Theatre Practitioner Major Ortho Scrub, you will:
- Work with leading consultants and like-minded professionals
- Enjoy a varied caseload with state-of-the-art technology, equipment and facilities
- Supervise, support and develop junior members of staff
- Create high-quality care and patient experiences that are clinically effective and evidence based
- Interact well with colleagues on the ward, understanding that continuity in patient care is key
- Deliver high-quality care to patients in the anaesthetic and recovery phases of surgery
- Collaborate with anaesthetists and surgical teams to prepare and monitor patients pre, during, and post-surgery
- Have ample opportunities for continuous growth and personal development
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. From Holiday in line with the Working Time Directive, Access to our Pension Scheme and discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month.
Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability.
Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital
The Exeter Nuffield hospital is based next to the RD&E hospital in Wonford, Exeter. The hospital has 2 theatres, as well as a hybrid cardiac catheter laboratory/theatre and an Endoscopy suite. There are two ward areas: an inpatient area with 21 beds and a day-case ward with 12 beds. We also have a busy outpatient department, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and radiology department including an MRI scanner. We specialise in elective orthopaedic and spinal surgery, cardiology including invasive procedures, general surgery, plastics and cosmetic surgery, ENT, and gynaecology. The Hospital has a MAKO robot that undertakes some of the joint replacement surgery which we have become well known for in this field of surgery.
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This advert is for Theatre Practitioner – Major Ortho Scrub (Bank) with Nuffield Health in Exeter, United Kingdom. It is listed as a Practitioner role. The application deadline is 16 Nov 2026.
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