Theatre Practitioner/Nurse | East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust; Ashford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Ashford is offering an opportunity for a Band 5 Registered Theatre Practitioner/Nurse at William Harvey Hospital. This role involves ensuring high standards of patient care, developing clinical protocols, and maintaining effective communication with the multidisciplinary team. Candidates are expected to promote infection prevention and take an active role in patient discharge planning. Join a team committed to nurturing your professional development and improving patient care in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Communicate effectively with patients and their relatives.
• Ensure quality initiatives within the nursing environment are adhered to.
• Promote and maintain effective working relationships.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development of clinical protocols.
• Ensure accurate patient records are kept.
• Act as the patients’ advocate.

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Registered Theatre Practitioner/Nurse within the Theatre Department at William Harvey Hospital. We have 12 theatres covering specialities from Trauma, General Surgery, Gynae, ENT, Max Fax, Ophthalmology, Breast, Emergency and Obstetrics.

You may be required to work between all of these theatres. We firmly believe that developing our staff is key to success; we have a dynamic and progressive training and development ethos, providing excellent opportunities to enhance your knowledge and competencies, nurturing your personal and professional development by encouraging and supporting you to reach your full potential!

We are proud that our dedicated and passionate employees from across East Kent Hospitals are featured in the biggest NHS recruitment drive in its 70 year history!

Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with patients and their relatives, ensuring accurate and seamless information is conveyed and documented.
• Ensure that all quality initiatives within the nursing environment are adhered to and that the highest standards of care are maintained at all times.
• Assist in the development of clinical protocols ensuring that these are reviewed in accordance with the needs of the service in conjunction with the Ward/Unit manager.
• Ensure that accurate and legible patient records are kept in line with professional and legal requirements.
• Promote and maintain effective working relationships and communications with consultants, medical staff, nurse colleagues and other multi-agency professionals.
• Act as the patients’ advocate.
• Liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in taking an active role in planning effective, timely, and safe discharges in Day Surgery Ward.
• Be clinically competent in all areas of advanced practice relevant to the post.
• Work to eliminate all avoidable infection by acting as a role model in infection prevention and control prevention to all staff, and patients’ visitors.
• Take direct responsibility for ensuring cleaning standards are maintained throughout the shift when in charge.

About the Trust

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘Documents to download’. If you have further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.

This advert closes on Monday 22 Dec 2025