Band 5 Scrub Nurse/ODP Cardiothoracic theatres

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare institution in London seeks a dedicated Band 5 Scrub Nurse/ODP for the Cardiothoracic Team. The role involves providing excellent nursing care in operating theatres, supervising junior staff, and ensuring high clinical standards. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and a passion for patient care. Competitive salary offered in the range of £37,259 to £45,356 per year.

Qualifications

• Experience in cardiac and thoracic surgery.
• Ability to manage resources and clinical risks.
• Understanding of research and evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent nursing care in the operating theatres.
• Monitor and maintain high standards of care.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff.

Skills

Prioritisation in clinical settings

Adaptability

Assertiveness

Communication skills

Initiative

Education

Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner

6 months post-registration experience in operating theatres

6 months clinical experience in specific theatres

Tools

Cerner iClip Surginet Perioperative documentation system

Job description

Go back St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Band 5 Scrub Nurse/ODP Cardiothoracic theatres

Closing date is 07 October 2025

Are you a dedicated and motivated nurse/ODP with experience in cardiac and thoracic surgery? Do you have a passion for excellence, patient safety and high quality care? Join our expert and dynamic Cardiothoracic Team at St. George's Hospital delivering exceptional care to patients. This is a rewarding opportunity to work alongside a multidisciplinary team committed to compassionate care, clinical excellence, safety and continuous improvement.

We are looking for compassionate professionals who are

• able to prioritise in a busy clinical settings
• adaptable and enthusiastic
• assertive and confident in decision making
• strong communicators and effective team players
• capable of using their own initiative while maintain high standards of care

Main duties of the job

We have 33 operating theatres between St George's and Queen Mary's Hospitals. Our staff work in teams and we are committed to keeping our focus on giving Outstanding Care, Every Time to our patients.

The main duties of this job role is to provide excellent nursing care. As skills and competencies develop, taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the theatre area or department on a regular basis.

• Setting, monitoring and maintaining excellent standards of nursing care in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
• Ensuring that nursing procedures are carried out in accordance to Trust's policies
• As skills and competencies develop, taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the theatre area or on a regular basis.
• Supervising and mentoring junior staff.
• Working to support cardiothoracic theatres services including on-call commitment.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010. St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification document which contains more and the person specification for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Clinical Experience & Training

• Registered Nurse (general) or Operating Department Practitioner
• A minimum of 6 months post registration experience in operating theatres.
• A minimum of 6 months clinical experience in Paediatric, Obstetrics and Gynaecology theatres
• Experience in robotic surgery.

Organisational Management

• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care according to individual needs.
• Ability to effectively prioritise workload and patient care needs.
• Demonstrates an understanding of managing resources
• Demonstrates an understanding of clinical risk
• Experience in Cerner iClip Surginet Perioperative documentation system.
• Ability to take charge of the ward in the absence of the theatre Nurse-in-charge (NIC) on a regular basis.

Education & Research

• Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of research and evidence based practice
• Able to explain the principles of mentoring and assessing junior staff
• Understands the importance of developing self and others
• Demonstrates an understanding of audit
• Ability to take on small research or audit project.

General & Personal

• Motivated and demonstrates an enthusiasm for the speciality
• Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to patient care
• Sound verbal and written communication.
• Adaptable and responsive to changing needs
• Ability to use own initiative
• Ability to identify stress in self and others and to take effective action to manage the situation
• Ability to motivate and lead staff for a shift.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£37,259 to £45,356 a year per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)