Theatre Support Worker

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust in London is recruiting a Theatre Support Worker to join the theatres team. You will assist the surgical team to provide a quality service and safe patient care, and support preparation of sterile and non‑sterile equipment.

You will maintain a clean and tidy theatre environment, manage stock levels, and work under supervision with strong verbal and written communication. Weekend and on‑call rotations begin after competence training.

Qualifications

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Good numeracy skills to handle basic counts and measurements.
• Ability to work under supervision within a MDT.

Responsibilities

• Assist the surgical team to provide a quality service.
• Assist to deliver safe patient care according to procedures.
• Support preparation of sterile and non-sterile equipment.
• Maintain a clean and tidy theatre environment.
• Maintain stock levels in theatres.
• Join weekend and on-call rotations after competence training.
• Communicate clearly with the team in spoken and written form.
• Maintain infection control standards across the MDT.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Numeracy

Education

GCSE English

GCSE numeracy

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Theatre Support Worker to join the team working in theatres. The post holder will be responsible for:

• Assisting the surgical team to provide a quality service.
• Assisting the surgical team to deliver safe patient care
• Supporting the surgical team in the preparation of sterile and non- sterile equipment.
• Maintaining a clean and tidy environment throughout theatres.
• Maintaining a good stock levels
• As part of the weekend and on call., Works as part of the team to maintain good working relationships.
• Communicates well both verbal and written.
• Is able to work under supervision.
• Able to provide and receive routine information.
• Provides information to enable the effectiveness of care to be evaluated.
• Reports any concern regarding patient care.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Supervised by the trained nurse, records care.
• Able to make sure infection control standards are maintained by all members of the MDT
• Able to maintain Theatres clean and tidy all the times
• Join weekend and night rotation after competence training. You must also demonstrate a good verbal and written command of English, along with excellent communication/ interpersonal skills and a reasonable level of numeracy equivalent to GCSE., LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation; we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
• 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. To find out more about our Trust, why not view our video we are London North West University Healthcare