Theatre Practitioner | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust invites experienced Theatre Practitioners to join as Band 6, working primarily at the Royal Blackburn Hospital with cross-site duties. Roles include scrub/circulating responsibilities and potential anaesthetic/recovery duties depending on qualification and experience.

We seek committed, motivated individuals with strong time management and excellent communication skills to lead and support a busy theatre environment, including participation in weekend/late

Qualifications

• Experience as a theatre practitioner; competent in scrub or anaesthetics/recovery roles.
• Ability to adapt to different theatre specialities and cross-site working.
• Strong time management and communication skills; flexible in approach.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert standards of care to patients in theatre.
• Maintain a safe environment and accurate documentation (electronic and written).
• Act as scrub or circulating nurse, and anaesthetic/recovery nurse as qualified.
• Coordinate the day-to-day running of the theatre unit and provide leadership.
• Demonstrate exemplary leadership and professional role modelling.

Skills

Theatre practitioner

Scrub

Circulating

Robot surgery

Tools

Robot systems

Job description

Theatre Practitioner | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

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 practioners,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.

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.

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.

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.

This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026