# Senior Theatre Practitioner

**Company**: Circle Health Group
**Location**: Goring-by-Sea
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Up to £44,372.66 per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Theatre Practitioner to join our team at Goring Hall Hospital, part of Circle Health Group. This is a full-time role for 37.5 hours a week, with a flexible shift pattern.

As a Senior Theatre Practitioner, you will act as the senior scrub for a range of orthopaedic procedures, including joint replacements, arthroscopies, trauma, and spinal surgeries. You will prepare and handle specialist instrumentation and equipment, provide skilled assistance to the surgical and anaesthetic teams, and take a senior role in preparing theatres, coordinating surgical lists, and ensuring all equipment, staff, and resources are in place.

Responsibilities:

- Act as the senior scrub for a range of orthopaedic procedures

- Prepare and handle specialist instrumentation and equipment

- Provide skilled assistance to the surgical and anaesthetic teams

- Take a senior role in preparing theatres, coordinating surgical lists, and ensuring all equipment, staff, and resources are in place

- Support the Theatre Manager with team briefings, scheduling, stock control, and ensuring safe patient flow through the theatre suite

- Supervise junior theatre practitioners, ODPs, and healthcare assistants

Requirements:

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

- Significant experience in the perioperative setting with specialist knowledge in orthopaedic surgery

- Proven ability to scrub for a wide range of orthopaedic procedures, including complex cases

- Experience in both scrub and anaesthetics is desirable

- Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills

- Strong understanding of clinical governance, infection control, and safety practices in theatre

- Previous experience in a senior role within theatres

- Experience with robotic-assisted surgery or advanced orthopaedic navigation tools

- Mentorship or teaching qualification

- ILS/ALS certification

- Familiarity with private healthcare processes, scheduling, and implant stock systems

Salary and Benefits:

- Up to £44,372.66 per year, depending on level of experience, training, and qualification

- 25 days holiday per year + bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with service

- Private Pension Scheme

- Private Healthcare Scheme for treatment at our hospitals, covering pre-existing medical conditions

- Friends & Family Hospital Discounts

- Family Friendly policies, including enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption pay

- Non-contributory life insurance

- Staff engagement hub with access to discounts and extensive rewards and voluntary benefits

- Access to resources, tools and services to support your wellbeing

- Employee recognition programmes

- Industry leading training and development opportunities

## Skills

### Required
- orthopaedic surgery
- perioperative setting
- scrubbing
- anaesthetics
- leadership
- communication
- decision-making
- clinical governance
- infection control
- safety practices

### Nice to have
- robotic-assisted surgery
- advanced orthopaedic navigation tools
- mentorship
- teaching qualification
- ILS/ALS certification

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