Registered Practitioner - Theatres

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Registered Practitioner - Theatres

The closing date is 23 January 2026

We are recruiting for Registered Practitioner - Theatres who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Our service now includes admission and recovery of elective patients and a continued emergency service for the Trust. Our team works 24/7, 365 days a year. As part of a rotation with other team members, you'll be expected to work evenings, nights, on calls, Bank Holidays, and weekends.

This role is within Theatres, there is an expectation to be rotated across all theatre areas including the QE2 to assist and care for patients undergoing a variety of elective (Vascular, Orthopaedics, Urology, Obstetrics & Gynae, Obstetrics, Plastics, Robotics, ENT, Oral Surgery, Ophthalmology, General Surgery) and Emergency procedures.

Candidates invited to interview will also be asked to participate in a practical element as part of the selection process. This practical element will test theatre knowledge and practice.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:
Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

The post holder will receive, transfer and position patients for clinical procedure.

You will be responsible for preparing the Theatre for surgery and preparing sterile equipment/supplies and keep waste to a minimum.

The successful candidate will be responsible for preparation, safe use, decontamination, troubleshooting and reporting of faulty complex equipment.

You will need to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure the safety and comfort of patients and be flexible to be able to work in any of the Theatre areas according to service needs.

You will also need to work on-call and out of hours working, regardless of the department you are based in, to provide emergency access to our most acutely ill patients.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

• Registered Nurse or Registered ODP
• Must be willing to undertake relevant post registration courses as advised by the Practice Educators/ Theatre Team Leaders
• ILS/ALS
• PILS
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Evidence of mentorship & preceptorship training

• Gained through undertaking relevant study
• Post qualification experience within the perioperative setting
• Relevant experience in either an inpatient or day surgery theatre, maternity theatre or other relevant clinical area.
• Peri-operative practice, skilled in recovery and scrub
• Experience of providing clinical support outside of the theatre area

• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Basic IT skills
• Can organise and prioritise
• Ability to demonstrate initiative
• Flexible
• Clear written and spoken English
• Good planning skills. Can effectively and efficiently run a theatre list Can participate in the audit process
• Can perform in the role of scrub and circulating assistant, recovery or has relevant experience within a critical / acute care setting
• Has relevant experience within maternity or gynaecology surgery.

• Aware of the National 6 Cs campaign
• Aware of Trust's Values
• An understanding of peri-operative patient care
• Understanding of aseptic technique
• Participate in audit
• Knowledge of the aims of the Trust
• Knowledge of privacy / dignity & infection control relating to theatre area

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our Trust values every day

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