Senior Ophthalmic Scrub Practitioner (Bank)

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Chichester; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital is seeking a Senior Theatre Practitioner (ODP) on a bank, ad hoc basis with part-time hours. You will lead perioperative care, ensure patient safety and collaborate across the theatre team.

Working within our established hospital, you will uphold governance standards, maintain high perioperative care quality, and support junior staff while adapting to fluctuating surgical activity. This role suits experienced, flexible professionals seeking varied shifts.

Qualifications

• Registered with HCPC and hold relevant perioperative qualifications.
• Post-registration theatre/operating department experience.
• Commitment to high perioperative standards.
• Flexible, focused team player.

Responsibilities

• Prioritise patient safety, taking appropriate actions and encouraging colleagues to call out and report safety concerns.
• Promote a safe working environment for patients, visitors and staff (in full compliance with all policies and procedures).
• Support governance activity, ensuring full compliance with Nuffield Health’s Quality governance framework and national standards, e.g. CQC/HIW/HIS Regulation, fundamentals of care, professional standards and evidence‑based guidelines.
• Provide and lead care management and delivery, treating patients, families, friends and representatives with kindness, dignity, respect and compassion and support them to cope emotionally with their care, treatment or condition.
• Collaborate with other clinicians within the Hospital, building strong working relationships that enhance patient care and service delivery.
• Take charge of a theatre, co‑ordinating and delivering work activities and leading junior practitioners.

Education

HCPC registration

Job description

Senior Theatre Practitioner (ODP) Chichester Hospital | Nursing | Bank - Ad hoc | Part time

Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad‑hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability. Wherever you’re currently working, Nuffield Health is where you’ll excel. As the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity, we can offer you a unique opportunity to feel valued, free from constraints and able to grow your career, while you’re helping us offer the highest standards of care. Transforming patient care, focusing on what matters. It starts with you.

Key Responsibilities

• Prioritise patient safety, taking appropriate actions and encouraging colleagues to call out and report safety concerns.
• Promote a safe working environment for patients, visitors and staff (in full compliance with all policies and procedures).
• Support governance activity, ensuring full compliance with Nuffield Health’s Quality governance framework and national standards, e.g. CQC/HIW/HIS Regulation, fundamentals of care, professional standards and evidence‑based guidelines.
• Provide and lead care management and delivery, treating patients, families, friends and representatives with kindness, dignity, respect and compassion and support them to cope emotionally with their care, treatment or condition.
• Collaborate with other clinicians within the Hospital, building strong working relationships that enhance patient care and service delivery.
• Take charge of a theatre, co‑ordinating and delivering work activities and leading junior practitioners.

Qualifications & Experience

• Registered with the appropriate governing body and hold the relevant qualifications and experience, including HCPC registration.
• Post‑registration experience.
• Passion for high standards in perioperative care, a meticulous eye for detail and ability to maintain high standards of perioperative care.
• Focused, flexible and motivated team worker.

Benefits

• Holiday in line with the working time directive.
• Access to our pension scheme.
• Discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month.

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital is a 30 bedded hospital within walking distance of the city centre with free onsite car parking. The hospital has two laminar flow operating theatres and two minor treatment rooms in the outpatient department. There is a small radiology department and CT/MRI services are provided in a mobile unit. Inpatient physiotherapy is provided within the hospital whilst our outpatients attend the fitness and wellbeing centre at Chichester gate for their follow up physio and hydrotherapy treatments. Our main speciality is orthopaedics. We also care for patients needing treatment within the specialties of gynaecology, urology, general surgery, plastic surgery, ophthalmology max fax, and pain. We provide outpatient services for dermatology, cardiology, neurology, and rheumatology.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. It starts with you. Nuffield Health, is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services. Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.