Senior Theatre Practitioner Plastics

Transformationunitgm; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Theatre Practitioner in Plastics to join their dedicated team, providing comprehensive plastic surgery services in a supportive environment. This role involves overseeing patient care, supervising staff, and contributing to operational efficiency. Ideal candidates will have theatre experience, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to professional development.

Benefits

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

Generous pension scheme

NHS discounts

On-site parking (fee applies)

On-site health and fitness club

Day nursery and holiday play scheme

Qualifications

• Theatre scrub experience including Microsurgery.
• Must hold assessing and mentoring qualification.
• Completion of a leadership course is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality evidence-based care with attention to patient experience.
• Supervise and develop junior staff and learners.
• Manage efficient list management to maximize theatre utilization.

Skills

Leadership

Patient Care

Evidence-Based Practice

Education

Professional Registration

Assessing and Mentoring Qualification

Leadership Course

Job description

Employer Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Salisbury Foundation Trust Town Salisbury Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata if part time Salary period Yearly Closing 06/07/2025 23:59

Senior Theatre Practitioner Plastics

6

Job overview

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust is seeking enthusiastic, motivated Theatre Clinical Specialists to join our Plastics Team and contribute to the expansion of our services.

A dedicated team at Salisbury District Hospital provides a comprehensive range of plastic surgery services, including acute and reconstructive burns care, cleft surgery for children across Salisbury and Oxford regions, and trauma as well as elective reconstructive procedures. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a specialist environment within the renowned Odstock Regional Centre for Burns, Plastic, and Reconstructive Surgery.

Plastics also forms part of a specialty network that includes Burns and Reconstructive Surgery. While these posts are for Plastics, there is scope to further develop your knowledge and skills across the broader specialty areas. The activity is organized between Main Theatres and Day Surgery, with plenty of support from our Senior Team Lead for successful applicants.

We offer personal and professional development within a friendly and collaborative environment. Our excellent Departmental Education Team provides training opportunities to help enhance your skills and progress your career. If you have experience of working in a plastics theatre and are looking for an exciting opportunity, please apply.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver high quality evidence-based care with attention to patient experience.
• Supervise and develop junior staff and learners, liaising with the education team.
• Demonstrating efficient list management and an awareness of operational issues. Assist in the department’s recovery plan to maximise theatre utilisation and to minimise delays.
• Attend multidisciplinary scheduling meetings to plan care and manage theatre time effectively.
• Working closely with materials management and procurement to manage effective stock control through cost effective practice.
• Conversant with the Datix reporting system- working with the department to manage action plans and learning outcomes, to help reduce risk and enhance patient safety.
• Assist in the equipment needs of the service by helping to rationalise instrumentation and helping with the capital bid process.
• Undertake line management duties such as return to work interviews, 1 to 1 meetings and appraisal

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Professional Registration

• Theatre scrub experience which must include Microsurgery
• Assessing and mentoring qualification
• Leadership Course

We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-

• Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
• Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
• An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
• Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
• An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
• Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Uniform provided (where required)
• On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
• On site health and fitness club
• On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.

GETTING TO WORK

We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY

We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.

The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.

OTHER INFORMATION

If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

JOIN THE CONVERSATION

Find us on social media, we're on Facebook, X, Instagram, and LinkedIn - search for SDHRecruitment or Salisbury District Hospital.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.