Job summary
- Main area
- Urgent & Emergency Care
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 328-PCC-7175121
- Employer
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Friarage Hospital
- Town
- Northallerton
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Theatre Sister/Senior ODP
Band 6
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge and to find a fulfilling career in healthcare? Do you want to make a difference to people’s lives?
We would like to hear from qualified ODP practitioners and Registered Nurses to be a part of our dynamic team at our accredited Friarage Surgical Centre.
Do you have:
- A passion for delivering high quality patient care
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- The ability to deliver safe, effective and compassionate care
- A commitment to continual personal and professional development.
- 1 years post qualifying experience
- Scrub experience in General Surgery
Main duties of the job
The operating department at the Friarage Hospital currently has 5 operating theatres within the Unit and in 2025 we will be opening our new Surgical Hub which will have 6 main operating theatres and 2 Minor Op rooms, The theatres provide an operating service to the following clinical specialities: General Surgery, Gynaecology, Urology, Orthopaedics, Plastics,ENT,Maxillofacial, Ophthalmic,Pain and Spinal Surgery.
You will need to be an active member of the multidisciplinary team by demonstrating a range of essential skills to lead your team .
The department is committed to staff development and offers the opportunity to develop your leadership skills further. Staff will at times be expected to work across site at the main tertiary centre at James Cook University Hospital. Good communication and organisational skills and the ability to lead a team are essential to this post.
Working for our organisation
Leadership and Improvement Training
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to
Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience working within and acute or community setting
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Effectively prioritises and co-ordinates own work.
- Good information technology skills.
- Commitment to the needs of the service including a flexible and adaptable approach in the work environment/ work practices.
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with NMC or ODP with HCPC
- Nursing Degree/Diploma or ODP qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Trauma and orthopaedic scrub experience.
- Prepared to update and undertake further professional education. To meet the required skills for the 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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Cawthorn
- Job title
- Theatre Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01609 763141
- Additional information
Louise Cawthorn
01609 763141
Ext: 63141
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