# Perioperative Practitioner FTC

**Company**: Spire Healthcare
**Location**: Reading, Berkshire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Spire Dunedin Hospital in Reading is seeking an experienced Scrub Practitioner to join their Theatre team on a 12-month fixed term contract.

As a Scrub Practitioner, you'll work alongside experienced Consultants and theatre colleagues, supporting a varied surgical caseload while delivering outstanding patient care and developing your expertise across multiple specialities.

Responsibilities:

- Scrub for Consultant-led surgical procedures across a variety of specialities.

- Deliver safe, effective perioperative patient care.

- Assess patients' health and wellbeing throughout their surgical pathway.

- Develop and implement patient-centred care plans.

- Promote best practice, patient safety and clinical quality standards.

- Support infection prevention and health and safety procedures.

- Work collaboratively with Consultants and multidisciplinary teams.

- Contribute to quality improvement and service development initiatives.

Requirements:

- Registered Nurse (NMC) or Operating Department Practitioner (HCPC).

- Current NMC or HCPC registration with no restrictions on practice.

- Minimum of two years' scrub experience within a theatre environment.

- Major Orthopaedic and/or Ophthalmic scrub experience is highly desirable.

- Confident scrubbing across multiple surgical specialities.

- Anaesthetics and Recovery experience would be advantageous.

- Able to work effectively both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

- Flexible, adaptable and committed to delivering outstanding patient care.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- 35 days' annual leave inclusive of bank holidays

- Access to private healthcare and health insurance options

- Gym and wellbeing benefits

- Free on-site parking

- Employer and employee contributory pension scheme

- 'Spire for You' reward platform

- Free Bupa wellness screening

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## Skills

### Required
- Scrub experience
- Theatre experience
- perioperative patient care
- patient assessment
- care planning

### Nice to have
- Major Orthopaedic scrub experience
- Ophthalmic scrub experience
- Anaesthetics experience
- Recovery experience

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