Job summary
- Main area
- Theatres
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 214-SRG-7066908
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newark Hospital
- Town
- Newark
- Salary
- £24,169 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/05/2025 08:00
Employer heading

Theatre Orderly
NHS AfC: Band 2
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here annd know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
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Job overview
Are you ready to join a dynamic healthcare team and make a meaningful impact on patient care? Newark Hospital is currently seeking dedicated and organised individual to join us as a Theatre Orderly in our Theatre Department. This is a permanent, full-time role with the option for part-time consideration, offering a unique chance to contribute to the smooth operation of our department.
As a Theatre Orderly, you will play a key role in supporting our highly skilled team in the delivery of specialised inpatient and day-case procedures across our 3 theatres, as well as our minor ops suite and procedure room. You will be involved in a wide range of specialities, including:
- Orthopaedics
- General Surgery
- ENT
- Gynaecology
- Breast
- Urology
- Ophthalmology
We offer a supportive environment where your contributions will make a direct impact on the quality of care we provide to our patients. If you’re passionate about healthcare and have a strong organisational mindset, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Previous face-to-face customer care experience
- Previous care work experience
Desirable criteria
- Theatre portering/orderly experience or experience in a hospital setting
Qualifications - Academic/Craft/Professional
Essential criteria
- Good standard of education in English and Maths
- Care certificate or commitment to achieving within 2 weeks of commencement
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to maintain patient confidentiality
- Work effectively with other professions
- Team worker
- Able to communicate effectively
- Remains calm under pressure
- Motivated
- Must understand basic requirements for individualised personal care
- Awareness of safeguarding issues
- Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
Additional requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to work flexibly on a varied shift pattern according to the roster including nights and weekends
Applicant requirements
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
- Amy Sprigg
- Job title
- Theatre Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01636 685835
- Additional information
If I am not available to speak to you please contact the following:
Joanne Kettle- Orthopaedic Team leader
Nicola Bellaby - Anaesthetic/ Recovery Lead
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