Job summary
- Main area
- Theatres
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-7251688
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/09/2025
Employer heading
Theatre Practitioners - Scrub & Recovery
NHS AfC: Band 5
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for Registered Practitioners in Theatres who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Our service now includes admission and recovery of elective patients and a continued emergency service for the Trust. Our team works 24/7, 365 days a year. As part of a rotation with other team members, you'll be expected to work evenings, nights, on calls, Bank Holidays and weekends.
We have roles within Theatres, in Scrub & PACU and there is an expectation to be rotated across all theatre areas to assist and care for patients undergoing a variety of elective (Vascular, Orthopaedics, Urology, Obstetrics & Gynae, Plastics, Robotics, ENT and General Surgery) and Emergency procedures.
Our values are Include, Respect, and Improve. It's crucial that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
You will receive, transfer and position patients for clinical procedure.
You will be responsible for preparing the Theatre for surgery and preparing sterile equipment/ supplies and keep waste to a minimum.
Responsible for preparation, safe use, decontamination, troubleshooting and reporting of faulty complex equipment.
Admit and discharge theatre patients, care for patients post operatively.
Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure the safety and comfort of patients
Work in any of the Theatre areas according to service needs, regardless of which theatre department they are based in including QE2 site, although it is anticipated that staff do permanently work in the department they are employed to be based in.
Participation in on- calls and out of hours working is needed by all staff, regardless of the department they are based in, to provide emergency access to our most acutely ill patients.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person specifcation included in this pack for the detailed job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse or Registered ODP
- Registration with NMC/HCPC
- Must be willing to undertake relevant post registration courses as advised by the Practice Educators/Theatre Team Leaders
Desirable criteria
- ALS/ ILS
- PILS
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Gained through undertaking relevant studies
Desirable criteria
- Post registration experience within the perioperative setting
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Basic IT skills
- Ability to demonstrate initiative
- Flexible
- Clear written and spoken English
- Teamwork
Desirable criteria
- Good planning skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Aware of the National 6 Cs campaign
- Aware of Trust’s Values
- An understanding of peri-operative patient care
- Understanding of aseptic technique
- Understanding of audit(s)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Lesley Lowing
- Job title
- Theatre Clinical Educator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438284591
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