Theatre Support Worker - Southport

Merseywestlancs; Sefton; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Southport is seeking a Theatre Support Worker to join the theatres team. The role is full-time, 37.5 hours per week, and involves cleaning, preparation of the theatre suite and patient transport to and from the Operating Theatre.

You will handle equipment like floor buffers and scrubber machines, maintain cleanliness, and support infection control. An Enhanced DBS is required, and UK experience is essential; immediate start available.

Qualifications

• GCSE/Level 2 Maths and English as minimum educational requirement.
• NVQ Level 2 in Health Care or equivalent, with willingness to progress.

Responsibilities

• Assist in transporting patients and belongings to Theatre and wards.
• Handle medical gas, blood components, linen and theatre equipment transport.
• Maintain environmental cleanliness and stock housekeeping areas.
• Inspect equipment and report any faults to EBME.
• Follow policy, protect patient confidentiality and safety.

Skills

Motivation and initiative

Organisation

Polite and approachable

Maintain confidentiality

Basic IT skills

Integrity

Self-management

Flexibility

Information systems use

Education

GCSE/Level 2 Maths and English

NVQ Level 2 in Health Care or equivalent

Tools

Floor buffers

Scrubbing machines

Job description

We want talented and enthusiastic people from all backgrounds to join #TeamMWL, with us you can learn, grow and develop yourself and your career, realising your true ambitions and aspirations.

Whatever you’re looking for in your career, you’ll find it here at MWL.

Main area Theatres Southport Grade NHS AfC: Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days/ Evenings/Weekends) Job ref 409-8319349

Site Southport & Formby District General Town Southport Salary £25,272 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 15/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Theatre Support Worker to join the team in theatres at Southport theatres!

Full time- 37.5hours - Permanent

The job involves a high level of cleaning, maintenance and preparation of the theatre suite, as well as the safe and timely transport of patients to and from the Operating Theatre. The use of floor buffers and scrubbing machines is a requirement of the job, as is cleaning the staff restrooms and changing rooms.

An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.

Due to current service demands, we are only able to consider applicants who have relevant UK experience. Candidates must also be available to commence employment immediately or within a very short timeframe. We regret that we cannot progress applications that do not meet these essential requirements.

Main duties of the job

• Assist in the collection and return of patients and their belongings to and from Theatre Department, wards, diagnostic services, post anaesthesia unit.
• Collection and replacement of medical gases, transfer of blood components, linen, beds, trolleys, theatre equipment and pharmacy deliveries
• Responsibility for environmental cleanliness.
• Inspection of patient transportation equipment. Transfer of faulty equipment to EBME.
• Dispose of clinical and non-clinical waste including dirty linen as per Trust protocols.
• Stocking and cleaning areas out of housekeeping checklist (for example storage cabinets).
• Assist in checking of the fire safety equipment in the department.
• Adhere to Trust and Departmental Policies and Procedures
• Maintain confidentiality in matters relating to patients and staff.
• Specimen transportation as required.
• Keep fluid store area clean and tidy, dispose of empty boxes.
• Deliver on-call sheets and theatre lists as required.

Working for our organisation

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.

Proposed Interview date: TBC

Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE/Level 2 in Maths and English
• NVQ Level 2 in Health Care, or equivalent qualification/experience, or willing to work towards

Knowledge & Experience

• An understanding of the role Theatre Support Worker
• Experience of working within healthcare environment
• Knowledge of Infection control principles
• Knowledge of Health and Safety principles

Skills

• Motivation and initiative to work alone and within a team
• Able to organise and ensure that the environment is conducive to health care
• Polite, approachable with patients, staff and visitors
• Maintain confidentiality
• Basic IT Skills
• High level of personal integrity
• Possess the ability to manage own workload with a supervisor available at all times for support
• Flexible/adaptable
• Ability to use information systems

Other

• There is a frequent requirement for lifting, pushing and pulling for substantial proportion of the working day when cleaning, stock control and bed making
• Maintain high levels of focused concentration when in a busy environment.
• Continue to think clearly in possible situations when talking to patients with high levels of emotions and stress.

Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.

Given sometimes we receive a high volume of applications to work for us, please be aware, that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated should a sufficient number of applications be received from which a shortlist can be confirmed. Therefore, you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact [e-mail]

We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.

The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.

Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, we may be unable to provide sponsorship.

eVisa Update
For successful candidates on selected work and study visa routes, who have completed and paid for their applications will no longer receive a visa vignette in passport as evidence of their permission to enter the UK.
Instead, you will be issued with an eVisa only, which is accessed by creating a UKVI account.
Before travelling to the UK, we advise applicants to:

• Understand how to generate an eVisa share code

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.

Please note if applicable, applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.

If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

Flexible Working

We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:

• All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
• There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
• Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.

At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.

Working for Team MWL

Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website.

You will be expected to undertake the Trusts' commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated and will check all applications against AI detection software.

Additional Information

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE, which can be found here .

An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect during your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.