Registered Operating Department Practitioners or Nurse Theatre Practitioners

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; Long Eaton; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent health organization in Long Eaton is seeking Registered Operating Department Practitioners or Nurse Theatre Practitioners to join their Orthopaedic Theatre. This role involves delivering individualized perioperative care in a busy environment, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, and the opportunity to participate in continuous professional development and mentorship. The ideal candidates will have a strong commitment to patient care and teamwork, enhancing services in a leading healthcare facility.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Experience within an Orthopaedic department is preferred but not essential.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
• Willingness to support and mentor learners.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, individualised perioperative patient care.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team.
• Maintain professional development and support learner development.

Skills

Orthopaedic experience

Patient care assessment

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Practitioner qualification

Job description

We are looking for Registered Operating Department Practitioners or Nurse Theatre Practitioners to join our Orthopaedic Theatre family at the Royal Derby Hospital. Preferably with Orthopaedic experience, but not essential as training will be given. The suite comprises of 8 operating theatres offering all aspects of orthopaedic and trauma work, including robotics and spine. The successful candidates will become integral to the multidisciplinary team in a busy and supportive environment, and will be able to confidently assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care. If you are passionate about shaping and developing the patient care of the future and excited about working within a fast-moving, forward-thinking environment, then this would be the ideal position for you. We welcome applications from all motivated and dedicated individuals.

We offer yearly mandatory training, in-house training and have a brilliant Clinical Education Team. Other training can also be arranged at the manager's discretion.

Closing date of applications: 4 December 2025. Interview date: 18 December 2025. The role requires the individual to work within our multidisciplinary team providing high quality, individualised, perioperative patient care within the remit of Trust policies and procedures, with an opportunity to develop and extend skills across a variety of orthopaedic surgery specialities.

The post holder is expected to maintain their professional/essential development within the scope of their individual appraisal and according to service needs. The department also facilitates a wide variety of learners and there is a desirability for the post holder to support/mentor them as appropriate. Our Orthopaedic Theatre department covers a wide variety of exciting opportunities for a motivated, compassionate, and professional theatre practitioner to provide high quality patient care whilst working as part of our multidisciplinary team. There is an on call, weekend and Bank Holiday commitment as part of the general emergency team.

Band 5. As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together. Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. With over 14,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity. As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit. The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it's important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

Armed Forces and Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme. To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment. The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities. This commitment is to guarantee an interview for any candidate that has disclosed a disability under the Equality Act 2010 and who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

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Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.

Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4,810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2,077 per week.
• An average of 1,115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
• At UHDB, we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.
• For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part‑time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.
• We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.

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