Anaesthetic Practitioner | Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (BFT)

North Bristol NHS; West of England; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

North Bristol NHS is seeking an Anaesthetic Practitioner to join a busy perioperative team at Bristol. The role is suitable for ODPs or Registered Nurses with an anaesthetic qualification, offering flexible full-time or part-time hours.

You will participate in all aspects of anaesthetic technique, deputise for the Team Leader when required, and ensure high standards of patient care and safety within a multidisciplinary operating department.

Qualifications

• Must be an ODP or RN with anaesthetic qualification.
• Experience in perioperative care and patient safety.
• Flexibility to work full time or part time.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of clinical operating department work and provide high standard of patient care and safety.
• Deputise for the Team Leader when required/experience allows.
• Be involved in assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of care programmes within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Contribute to planning daily allocation of team members and resources in anaesthetics.
• Ensure devices and equipment are clean, functioning and stored properly.

Skills

Operating Department Practitioner

Registered Nurse

Anaesthetic qualification

Job description

Anaesthetic Practitioner | Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (BFT)

Company:

Company: North Bristol NHS

Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata for part time roles

Are you an Operating Department Practitioner or Registered Nurse with an anaesthetic qualification looking for a new challenge?

At Bristol NHS Foundation Trust we currently have 34 theatres in the Brunel Building, with a further 4 theatres in the new Bristol Surgical Centre. The theatres are supported by 84 medirooms and 4 traditional PACU facilities. We are a Major Trauma Centre, covering a range of specialties including Plastics & Breast, Urology, General, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Metabolic & GI, Elective Orthopaedic, Neuro & Spinal, Vascular, Interventional Radiology, Emergency & Trauma.

We are a well-established team with excellent support structures to facilitate your career progression.

We can offer:

• Full time or part time hours
• Engagement from the Perioperative Education Team
• Ongoing education and training from our Practice Facilitators

Suitable candidates need to be either Newly Qualified ODPs, experienced Registered ODP or Registered Nurses with a post basic Anaesthetic Nursing qualification.

The successful candidate will:

• Participate in all aspects of clinical operating department work, and provide a high standard of patient care and safety in accordance with the North Bristol NHS Trust philosophy and objectives, policies and legal requirements
• Deputise for the Team Leader when required/experience allows
• Be involved in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and work within a flexible team structure involving a multi- disciplinary team

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations,operatingfrom three main sites at Southmead, Bristol citycentreand Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston,join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

For a full overview of the Job Description and Person Specification, please refer to the PDF documents attached as an additional documents to this advert.

• Be competent in all aspects of anaesthetic technique and procedures.
• Work as a skilled member of the perioperative team, and be responsible for the assessment of care given to patients within the operating theatre and other areas where an anaesthetic service is required.
• Run theatre lists both efficiently and competently following policies and procedures.
• Take responsibility in ensuring the safe, effective and efficient management of allocated resources within anaesthetics, including assisting with the planning of daily allocation of team members.
• Be responsible for the care and maintenance of all anaesthetic equipment and consumable goods within your designated area. This responsibility will extend to all areas of the anaesthetic service and to inform the appropriate person of any stock/equipment requirements.
• Take appropriate action in regards to faulty equipment as per Trust policy and participate in the ordering and training of new equipment
• Ensure that the department is at all times clean and organised with sufficient supplies and equipment which are correctly cleaned, in working order and correctly stored.
• Supervise the work of junior and unqualified colleagues in the assessment of patients and advise appropriately, providing specialist knowledge in assessing and interpreting acute and other patients conditions.
• Take responsibility for personal and professional development, to be responsible for attending mandatory training sessions and to ensure that all policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Support Theatre Manager in developing and reviewing policies and standards for the safe use of equipment and substances hazardous to health in the department
• Have an understanding of scrub and circulating roles and to understand the responsibilities in these roles.

This advert closes on Wednesday 21 Oct 2026

£20.91 - £33.46 Rates may vary between Hospital Operating Units.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust