Theatre Practitioner – Scrub & Recovery

Job overview

Theatre Practitioner – Obstetric Scrub & Recovery

• hours per week (Weekends and Unsocial hours)

Permanent

Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum

Closing Date: Friday 30th October 2026

Interview Date: Tuesday 17th November 2026

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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• The successful candidate will be an Experienced Obstetric Scrub and Recovery Practitioner who must possess a sound knowledge and experience in Operating Theatres.
• You must be organised, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You must be motivated and enthusiastic with a passion for high quality patient care, and the ability to work well under pressure and flexibly as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• Strive for the continuous improvements in the delivery of high-quality patient focused care.
• To have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the Trust’s vision and EXCEL values and behave in a way that reflects these.
• Assist in the provision of assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of patients in the perioperative environment.
• Being sensitive to our patients and staff needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and always ensuring a friendly environment.
• As skills develop, manage the Theatre area in the absence of the Team Leaders, maintain safe staffing levels, ensuring that polices are always adhered to, and the Senior Theatre team remain updated
• Assists the Professional Development Team in the management of preceptorship of newly qualified staff, return to practice staff and the mentorship of Nursing /ODP students and theatre support workers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

• Maintaining a safe and clean environment within the clinical area in accordance with the Trusts policies and guidelines.
• Deliver a high standard of perioperative care based upon a sound evidence base.
• Provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.
• Maintaining timely and accurate patient care documentation, ensuring that confidentiality is respected

Managerial

• Ensure that adequate resources are available to meet the needs of the patients and contribute to cost improvement programmes.
• Contribute to the maintenance of appropriate stock levels and have an awareness of materials management.
• Ensure that all equipment for patient use is kept in good working order in line with current Regulations.
• Ensure that adequate skill mix is available to meet the needs of the patients. If deficits are unavoidable, contact the appropriate Senior Staff for support

Educational and Training

• Have a positive attitude to continuing professional development to enhance knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for safe and effective perioperative practice.
• Participate in Trust Appraisal System
• Possess a clear understanding of Clinical Governance in relation to standards of care, support of colleagues and audit of given care.
• Participate in the utilisation, evaluation and conduct of audit and research.
• Contribute to preceptoring, mentoring and assessing of colleagues and students in placement.

Professional

• Ensures that the Team Leader/Senior Team Leader is informed of any professional concerns at the earliest opportunity.
• Ensure that Revalidation requirements for NMC/HCPC Registration are adhered

Human Resources

• Assist senior colleagues with duty rostering
• Having an awareness of skill mix and its appropriateness in maintaining service needs

Special Requirements

• Provide on-call/stand-by cover as necessitated by departmental needs
• During night duty, it may be required to call in a second team.
• Pre-check the operating lists (all specialties competent in), to ensure that any ‘special’ prosthesis required has been ordered.
• Provide cover for extra-theatre activities e.g. maternity, cardiac arrest team, trauma team, external transfers, x-ray,
• Be able to cannulate and administer intravenous drugs
• Be able to catheterise male and female patients.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

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.