Theatre Practitioner – Scrub & Recovery

GEH; Nuneaton; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site nursery

27 days annual leave

Cycle to work

Flexible working

On-site restaurant

On-site parking

Training and development

Job summary

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust in Nuneaton seeks an Experienced Theatre Practitioner for Obstetric Scrub & Recovery. You will deliver high-quality perioperative care and support the obstetric theatre team across scrub and recovery duties.

The role requires strong communication, organisational skills, and the ability to work flexibly in a busy, multidisciplinary environment; standard NHS benefits apply, including training and development opportunities and an on-site nursery.

Qualifications

• 12 months+ post-registration in the perioperative environment.
• Experience as a scrub practitioner in obstetrics/orthopaedic settings is valued.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills in a multiprofessional team.

Responsibilities

• Maintain safe, clean perioperative environment following policies.
• Provide skilled clinical assistance to surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.
• Support preceptorship, mentoring and student placements where required.
• Assist in rostering and resource management to ensure service delivery.

Skills

Obstetric scrub

Recovery care

Perioperative teamwork

Education

NMC Registration

HCPC Registration

Job description

Theatre Practitioner - Obstetric Scrub & Recovery

37.5 hours per week (Weekends and Unsocial hours)

Permanent

Closing Date: Friday 30th October 2026

Interview Date: Tuesday 17th November 2026

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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• The successful candidate will be an Experienced Obstetric Scrub and Recovery Practitioner who must possess a sound knowledge and experience in Operating Theatres.
• You must be organised, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You must be motivated and enthusiastic with a passion for high quality patient care, and the ability to work well under pressure and flexibly as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• Strive for the continuous improvements in the delivery of high-quality patient focused care.
• To have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the Trust's vision and EXCEL values and behave in a way that reflects these.
• Assist in the provision of assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of patients in the perioperative environment.
• Being sensitive to our patients and staff needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and always ensuring a friendly environment.
• As skills develop, manage the Theatre area in the absence of the Team Leaders, maintain safe staffing levels, ensuring that polices are always adhered to, and the Senior Theatre team remain updated.
• Assists the Professional Development Team in the management of preceptorship of newly qualified staff, return to practice staff and the mentorship of Nursing /ODP students and theatre support workers.

About us

Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme - find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme

Job responsibilities

Clinical

• Maintaining a safe and clean environment within the clinical area in accordance with the Trusts policies and guidelines.
• Deliver a high standard of perioperative care based upon a sound evidence base.
• Provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.
• Maintaining timely and accurate patient care documentation, ensuring that confidentiality is respected.

Managerial

• Ensure that adequate resources are available to meet the needs of the patients and contribute to cost improvement programmes.
• Contribute to the maintenance of appropriate stock levels and have an awareness of materials management.
• Ensure that all equipment for patient use is kept in good working order in line with current Regulations.
• Ensure that adequate skill mix is available to meet the needs of the patients. If deficits are unavoidable, contact the appropriate Senior Staff for support.

Educational and Training

• Have a positive attitude to continuing professional development to enhance knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for safe and effective perioperative practice.
• Participate in Trust Appraisal System.
• Possess a clear understanding of Clinical Governance in relation to standards of care, support of colleagues and audit of given care.
• Participate in the utilisation, evaluation and conduct of audit and research.
• Contribute to preceptoring, mentoring and assessing of colleagues and students in placement.

Professional

• Ensures that the Team Leader/Senior Team Leader is informed of anyprofessional concerns at the earliest opportunity.
• Ensure that Revalidation requirements for NMC/HCPC Registration are adhered.

Human Resources

• Assist senior colleagues with duty rostering.
• Having an awareness of skill mix and its appropriateness in maintaining service needs.

Special Requirements

• Provide on-call/stand-by cover as necessitated by departmental needs.
• During night duty, it may be required to call in a second team.
• Pre-check the operating lists (all specialties competent in), to ensure that any special prosthesis required has been ordered.
• Provide cover for extra-theatre activities e.g. maternity, cardiac arrest team, trauma team, external transfers, x-ray.
• Be able to cannulate and administer intravenous drugs.
• Be able to catheterise male and female patients.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

Person Specification

• Minimum of 12 months post registration within the Perioperative environment
• Significant Experience Scrub Practitioner within Orthopaedic
• Strong knowledge of orthopaedic instrumentation, implants and surgical techniques
• Ability to anticipate the needs of the surgical team and maintain a safe, efficient surgical site
• Excellent understanding of Infection Control, patient safety and perioperative standards
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Recovery experience
• Registered General Nurse and / or Registered Operating Department Practitioner
• Ability to have positive working relationships
• Able to demonstrate clinical knowledge, skills and expertise
• Provide and receive complex and sensitive information, understanding the barriers to effective communication

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.