Senior Theatre Practitioner Scrub - SFA

NHS Jobs; Guildford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital is seeking a Senior Theatre Practitioner (ODP) to join our perioperative team. The role requires HCPC registration and an ODP qualification, with post‑registration theatre experience and a passion for high standards in patient care.

You will prioritise patient safety, lead theatre activities, and work collaboratively with clinicians to deliver excellent care while upholding governance and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Registered with HCPC and hold relevant ODP qualifications.
• Post-registration theatre experience in perioperative setting.
• Able to lead a theatre and coordinate junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Prioritise patient safety and encourage reporting of safety concerns.
• Promote a safe working environment following policies and procedures.
• Support governance activity in line with national standards.
• Lead care management, treating patients with dignity and compassion.
• Collaborate with clinicians to enhance patient care and service delivery.
• Take charge of a theatre, coordinating activities and leading junior practitioners.

Skills

Patient safety

Theatre leadership

Perioperative care

Team collaboration

Education

HCPC registration

ODP qualification

Job description

Senior Theatre Practitioner Guildford Hospital | Nursing | Permanent | Full Time Competitive salary depending on experience 37.5 hours per week. 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.

As a Senior Theatre Practitioner (ODP) at our Hospital, you're registered with the appropriate governing body and you hold the relevant qualifications and experience, including HCPC registration. You bring a passion for high standards in perioperative care, a meticulous eye for detail and post‑registration experience. You're a focused, flexible and motivated team worker.

As a Senior Theatre Practitioner (ODP), you will:

• 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.

Helping you feel good.

We're excited to offer a benefits package. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications).

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital. Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital provides high-quality healthcare working with leading Consultants to offer a range of services and treatments for preventing, diagnosing and treating a wide array of medical conditions and offer a wide range of complex surgery and services. Our care is matron led and we are proud to have received a "good" rating from the health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. It starts with you.