Theatre Scrub Practitioner /ODP

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider is seeking a Theatre Scrub Practitioner to join their dynamic theatre team in Greater London. The ideal candidate will be a registered nurse with experience in peri-operative care, ready to contribute to a supportive environment. Responsibilities include ensuring excellent patient care, maintaining documentation, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. This role requires a flexible working schedule, including on-call shifts. Competitive salary of £35,763 to £43,466 per year inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and motivated registered nurse.
• Post-registration experience in peri-operative nursing (scrubbing and circulating) required.
• Willingness to monitor equipment usage for efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Participate in developing a supportive theatre team.
• Ensure good communication with the multidisciplinary team.
• Maintain patients' privacy and dignity at all times.
• Act as an advocate for patients and their families.
• Maintain accurate documentation of patient care.

Skills

Registered Nurse

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Peri-operative nursing

Teamwork

Education

Current NMC registration

Current HCPC registration

Job description

Theatre Scrub Practitioner / ODP

Closing date: 23 December 2025

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated registered nurse to join our theatre team in CMH Theatres. We have nine modern operating theatres and a fully equipped recovery unit. We cover a range of specialities in acute and elective surgery, including Colorectal, General, Urology, ENT, Ophthalmology surgery and elective Orthopaedics. You will be an RGN / ODP with post‑registration experience in peri‑operative nursing (scrubbing and circulating) to join our theatre team. The applicant would be expected to work in all specialities on a rotation base.

You should have good communication and interpersonal skills, be willing to learn, and be prepared to utilise your skills in all peri‑operative areas. A willingness to monitor the usage of equipment to ensure efficiency and cost‑effective working is advantageous. The post involves early, late duty, long day and on‑call shifts, working Monday to Saturday.

Main duties of the job

• Participate in developing and consolidating a cohesive and supportive team within the peri‑operative environment.
• Ensure good communication verbally and via formal documentation and electronic sources with all members of the peri‑operative nursing, multidisciplinary team, patients and families to ensure patients receive optimum care.
• Maintain the patient's right to privacy and dignity at all times.
• Communicate with all colleagues in a courteous and sympathetic manner.
• Act as advocate for the patient and family.
• Ensure carers/family and visitors are aware of policies, standards/guidelines relevant to the patient's care or clinical area.
• Work in partnership with the patient and family and other health care professionals in care/discharge planning.
• Accept responsibility; be aware and able to locate all policies relating to good working practice within the clinical area and be able to adhere to both by self and others.
• Recognise the legal implications of nursing documentation therefore maintaining accurate records.
• Maintain accurate and legible records of patient care in line with Trust policies and NMC/HCPC Code of Conduct.
• Adhere to the NMC /HCPC Code of Conduct and Trust policies pertaining to patient confidentiality / the Data Protection Act / Caldicott Recommendations.
• Adhere to the trust swabs/instruments/needles count policy and WHO surgical checklist procedures.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serves a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top‑rated hyper‑acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper‑acute rehabilitation units in the UK.
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease.
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice.
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Person Specification

Theatre nursing

• oR.N./ODP, oCurrent NMC registration, oCurrent HCPC registration
• Knowledge and experience, oHave appropriate knowledge and skills to provide holistic care to patients in a perioperative and day care setting.
• oAbility to learn peri‑operative skills. oBasic insight into peri‑operative practice

Skills, abilities and attributes

• Competent to undertake a variety of roles within the ACAD and BECAD complex (to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate the specialised nursing care of adults being prepared for, undergoing and recovering from anaesthesia).

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.

£35,763 to £43,466 a year inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement