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Job summary

Main area
Theatres
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (Weekends and late shifts)
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

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPathway to excellenceCare quality commission - GoodCarer Friendly Employer 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare4NottsTime to changeFair Train Silver StandardStep into healthNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkArmed Forces Covenant

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

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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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