Scrub Theatre Practitioner

NHS; Manchester; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a dynamic registered practitioner (Nurse or ODP) to join a multidisciplinary team. You will work across various specialties including breast, general, and robotic surgery. This role requires excellent clinical knowledge and scrub skills. The salary ranges from £31,049 to £37,796 per annum. Apply by 13 October 2025.

Qualifications

• Experience of working independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to supervise and support junior staff.
• Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability.
• Awareness of clinical Audit.

Responsibilities

• Become an autonomous practitioner across all specialties.
• Participate in staff rotation through the various specialties.
• Plan the day’s activity relating to surgery regarding equipment and patient care.
• Provide peri-operative care focusing on individual patients’ needs.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately

Problem-solving

Well developed organisational skills

Dexterity and accuracy in physical skills

Education

Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner

Degree or Diploma

Anaesthetic and Recovery Qualification

Job description

Overview

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic, innovative and highly motivated registered practitioner (Nurse or ODP) with excellent clinical knowledge and scrub skills to join a core multidisciplinary team. You will be required to work across a variety of specialties including Breast, General, Urology, robotic surgery, ENT, Max Fax, Orthopaedics, Gynaecology and Paediatrics. Closing date: 13 October 2025.

Main duties of the job

• To develop to become an autonomous practitioner across all specialties with indirect support from senior staff.
• Participate in staff rotation through the various specialties.
• Plan the day’s activity relating to surgery regarding equipment and patient care.
• Provide peri-operative care in a systematic, planned process using a series of integrated steps, focusing interventions on individual patients’ needs.
• Establish and maintain the sterile field, ensuring minimisation of infection risk through effective procedures.
• Accountability for swabs, needles, instrumentation and other equipment used during the procedure.
• Safe labelling and transportation of specimens.
• Prepare and return instruments for decontamination to the third party sterile services provider, with appropriate paperwork and reporting any missing items or other defects.
• Provide skilled support to the scrubbed practitioner in the role of circulator.
• Maintain responsibility for identifying personal continuing educational needs and development and participate in annual appraisal.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn and operates at a scale that supports a wide range of opportunities. We bring together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, championing collaborative working and transformation. Our 30,000-strong workforce pursues ambitious goals and benefits from a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system launched in September 2022.

We are a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, with a robust infrastructure to encourage high-quality research programs. We are also advancing our Green Plan to help make healthcare more sustainable. At MFT, we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, and protect your health and wellbeing as we work together to shape the organisation’s future.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, please view the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. For informed consideration, read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. It also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before submitting an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply. If you have any special requirements to help with your application, email [e-mail].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner
• Degree or Diploma
• Anaesthetic and Recovery Qualification

Experience

• Experience of working independently and as part of a team
• Ability to supervise and support junior staff
• Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability
• Awareness of clinical Audit
• Evidence undertaking a mentor/preceptor role
• Experience in relevant area of practice

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work as part of a team
• Proven ability to problem-solve
• Demonstrates awareness of own limitations
• Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately
• Well developed organisational skills
• Dexterity and accuracy in physical skills

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current nursing issues
• Knowledge of clinical governance
• IT/Word Processing

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a Disclosure check may be required.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 per annum, pro rata