Theatre Practitioner - Scrub Nurse/ODP

Job overview

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join our Theatre Department as a scrub practitioner.

There are 10 theatres within our East Surrey site, providing 24-hour emergency cover and elective operating, and 4 theatres at our Crawley site, providing day surgery procedures. Specialities covered across both sites include;

• Ophthalmology
• Gynaecology
• Obstetrics (East Surrey Hospital only)
• ENT
• Orthopaedics
• Trauma
• General (including breast, paediatrics (East Surrey Hospital only), dental, colorectal, upper GI)
• Urology
• CEPOD (East Surrey Hospital only)

The post will be based within Theatres on the Crawley Hospital site, where we provide a day surgery service working Monday to Friday.

The successful candidate will provide high quality care and support to patients and staff working within the scrub role of the operating theatre.

We pride ourselves on supporting staff through training and development.

You will be keen to develop and contribute to the delivery of high quality, safe care with a real focus on continually improving the patient experience.

The successful candidate should have a “can do” approach in supporting the theatre, wards and departments objectives and they will be able to demonstrate the Trust Values and expected behaviours. Previous theatre experience would be desirable.

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding the role please read the attached job description and person specification.