# Theatre Practitioner - Recovery & Anaesthetics

**Company**: Circle Health Group
**Location**: High Wycombe
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: up to £43,000.00 per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Shelburne Hospital in High Wycombe, part of Circle Health Group, is seeking a Theatre Practitioner to join their team in the Theatre department. This role will work across Recovery & Anaesthetics.

The successful applicant will be required to cover a flexible shift pattern, working 37.5 hours per week.

Key responsibilities include:

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

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

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

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

- Checking all surgical and anaesthetic equipment prior to use and reporting faults immediately

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

- Supporting and contributing to a positive, respectful, and efficient theatre environment

The ideal candidate will have:

- Registration as a 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

- Previous orthopaedic experience

In return, Circle Health Group offers a competitive salary of up to £43,000 per year, depending on level of experience, training, and qualification, as well as a range of benefits, including:

- 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
- Operating Department Practitioner
- Nurse
- infection control
- manual handling
- patient safety
- anaesthetics
- recovery
- orthopaedic

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