Theatre Practitioner

East Lancashire Hospitals Nhs Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is recruiting a Band 6 Theatre Practitioner based at The Royal Blackburn Hospital with cross-site work to Burnley General Hospital. The post is permanent, with full-time or part-time options and requires experience in scrub/anaesthetic/recovery.

You will lead a theatre team, maintain high standards of patient care, and contribute to safe, efficient surgical services across both sites.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse or ODP with UK registration.
• Experience in Elective Scrub or Anaesthetic/Recovery.
• Ability to lead a theatre team and manage competing priorities.
• Willingness to work across Burnley General Hospital and Blackburn Hospital.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert standards of care and maintain a safe environment.
• Complete accurate electronic and written documentation.
• Act as scrub/circulating nurse or anaesthetic/recovery nurse as needed.
• Coordinate theatre unit on a day-to-day basis and provide strong leadership.
• Flexibility to work weekends and late shifts.

Skills

Time management

Conflict resolution

Team leadership

Workload prioritisation

Record keeping

Excel proficiency

SharePoint

Teams/Outlook

Audit reporting

Education

Registered Nurse or ODP

HE Diploma/HE qualification

Mentorship

Tools

Excel

SharePoint

Teams

Outlook

Audit reports

Job description

Closing date

03 November 2026

Job summary

We have the exciting opportunity for promotion to a Band 6 role which has arisen. We would invite all enthusiastic, committed, hardworking, and highly motivated, Registered Nurse's or Operating Department Practitioner's to join our family of dedicated Theatre Practitioners.

This Band 6 role is aimed at experienced Theatre practitioners, who are already competent in their specialised theatre role (scrub / A & R).

Your base for the role will predominantly be at The Royal Blackburn Hospital. However cross site working will be an expectation, as the service need occurs.

Main duties of the job

We have 11 theatres at the Royal Blackburn site and 17 at Burnley General and together we carry out a wide range of both elective and emergency surgery through many specialities including: Gynaecology, obstetrics, ophthalmology, general surgery, vascular, colorectal, HPB, Urology, orthopaedics, trauma, ENT, maxillofacial including Robotic assisted Surgery, and a 24 hour emergency service on both sites.

About us

We encourage innovation.

ELHT already has the largest and most comprehensive programme of robot assisted surgery in the northwest, with the region's leading surgeons removing head and neck, urological and colorectal cancers at the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital.

The Trust has 3 Robot systems - 2 at RBH and 1 at BGH

The extra capacity will also allow ELHT to perform more robot assisted surgery which will eventually include Hepato-biliary cancers.

Our aim is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care, by putting safety and quality at the heart of all we do.

Details

Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum, pro rata

Band: Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time

Reference number: 435-S191-26

Job responsibilities

We require a committed, motivated, hardworking individuals to work in our theatres. You will be required to show flexibility in your approach to the role and have excellent time management and communication skills.

We also expect all applicants to be dedicated to their role and enhance their knowledge and skills.

This post does include participation in weekend and late shifts.

Duties include; providing expert standards of care to patients, maintaining a safe environment for all, completing accurate and clear electronic and written documentation, acting as scrub / circulating nurse and or act as anaesthetic / recovery nurse depending on qualification and experience when clinical. Co-ordination of the theatre unit on a day to day basis. Exercise strong and effective leadership acting as an exemplary role model for the unit.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential: Registered Nurse - 1st or ODP 752, Level 3/Certificate of Higher Education or Diploma Teaching/Assessing Qualification: 998/7307/mentorship
• Mentorship
• Actively seeks to develop own knowledge, skills and ability
• Proven evidence of up to date training
• Desirable: Degree in health associated studies. Teaching certificate or equivalent experience. Further qualification in scrub, anaesthetics or recovery.
• Management/leadership
• Willingness to undertake future study for own professional development and service needs

Experience

• Essential: Previous experience
• Expert experience in Elective Scrub or Anaesthetic/Recovery
• Proven ability to lead a Theatre team
• Wider knowledge in multiple surgical specialties.
• Desirable: Knowledge of finance and budgets.

Work skills

• Essential: Knowledge of professional issues
• Ability to handle conflict
• Able to motivate, engage and develop the multi-disciplinary team. Demonstrate role modelling behaviours. Demonstrate quality and sustainability experience.
• Able to prioritise workload
• Desirable: Be proficient with Excel spread sheets, sharepoint, teams, outlook and audit reports.
• Clear and accurate record keeping

Flexibility

• Essential: Able to work the hours required by the service.
• Able to adapt to the changing needs of the service
• Able to work across both sites, Burnley General Hospital and Blackburn Hospital as the service need requires

People skills

• Essential: Proven ability to work effectively within a team.
• Demonstrate a sympathetic/sensitive approach to patients and colleagues
• Advocate a positive attitude and show you are able to use your own initiative and demonstrate problem solving
• Desirable: Have an understanding of team building

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.