# Theatre Practitioner - Recovery

**Company**: Hampshire Clinic
**Location**: Basingstoke
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Up to £37,500.00 per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Theatre Practitioner to join our team at Hampshire Clinic, part of Circle Health Group. This is a permanent, full-time role working 37.5 hours a week. As a Theatre Practitioner, you will play a crucial role in supporting the surgical team and providing high-quality patient care.

**Responsibilities:**

- Assist the surgical team by preparing instruments, maintaining sterility, anticipating surgeon needs, and ensuring equipment safety

- Support the Anaesthetist in equipment preparation, patient monitoring, airway management, and positioning

- Provide post-operative care, monitoring vital signs, managing pain and nausea, and ensuring patient readiness for discharge

- Adhere to infection prevention and control policies and procedures at all times

- Set up operating theatres according to surgery type and specific patient requirements

- Check all surgical and anaesthetic equipment prior to use and report faults immediately

- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to achieve safe and efficient surgical lists

- Support and contribute to a positive, respectful, and efficient theatre environment

**Requirements:**

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

- Experience or training in a theatre environment specialising in scrub, anaesthetics, or recovery

- Understanding of infection control, manual handling, and patient safety principles

- Ability to work under pressure, problem-solve, and respond quickly to changes in a dynamic environment

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

- Attention to detail, accuracy, and commitment to safe surgical practice

- Must have paediatric experience / PILS

- Desirable to have EPALS qualification

**Salary and Benefits:**

- Salary: Up to £37,500.00 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
- Registered Nurse (NMC)
- Operating Department Practitioner (HCPC)
- Infection control
- Manual handling
- Patient safety
- Paediatric experience / PILS

### Nice to have
- EPALS qualification

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