Job summary
- Main area
- Theatres
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-ZT051
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Heatherwood Hospital
- Town
- Ascot
- Salary
- £33,677 - £40,996 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Theatre Practitioner
Band 5
Job overview
We are pleased to offer exciting opportunities for Band 5 Theatre Scrub Practitioners with an interest in Orthopaedic surgery to join our team at Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot. Opened in March 2022, our modern facility provides excellent, purpose-built theatre environments.
Our GIRFT-accredited Theatre department includes six laminar flow theatres, specialising in elective orthopaedic procedures including hip and knee replacements, spinal, shoulder, foot and ankle surgery. We also support cross-site green trauma where required.
We welcome applications from Registered Nurses, Registered ODPs, final-year students nearing qualification, and return-to-practice practitioners who are keen to build a career in orthopaedics.
You will be supported by an experienced and friendly team and guided through a structured competency programme to develop into a confident, skilled orthopaedic practitioner.
Newly qualified practitioners will benefit from a comprehensive 12-month preceptorship programme, including 14 days of protected study leave, designed to support learning and professional development to the highest standards.
Please note: previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
- Support the Orthopaedic Scrub Practitioner team in maintaining a positive and effective working environment, ensuring the efficient use of staff, supplies, and resources.
- Provide a high standard of support to the perioperative team in delivering safe, high-quality patient care within the theatre setting.
- Work as a skilled and active member of the multidisciplinary theatre team.
- Promote effective communication between theatre staff, medical teams, wards, and other departments to ensure seamless patient care.
- Contribute to achieving organisational Quality Assurance and Risk Management objectives.
- Ensure all equipment is regularly checked, maintained, and used safely in accordance with policy.
- Support the training and development of junior staff and colleagues from other disciplines working within the department.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered RGN / ODP
- Evidence of Continual Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Theatre Course
- Theatre Experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Problem solving
- Computer literate
- Ability to work as team member
Desirable criteria
- Leadership experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience gained during RGN or ODP training
Desirable criteria
- Previous theatre experience in Anaesthetics, Scrub or Recovery
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sue Harrison
- Job title
- Orthopaedic Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006144141
- Additional information
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