# Theatre Practitioner (Bank)

**Company**: Chaucer Hospital
**Location**: Canterbury
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Salary**: Up to £25.00 per hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Theatre Practitioner to join our team at Chaucer Hospital in Canterbury. This is a bank role working on an 'as and when required' basis, supporting staffing levels during busy periods and providing cover for existing staff.

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 in at least one area (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

Salary & Benefits:

- Competitive hourly rate of up to £25.00 per hour, depending on level of experience, training, and qualification

## Skills

### Required
- Registered Nurse
- Operating Department Practitioner
- Infection Control
- Manual Handling
- Patient Safety

### Nice to have
- Theatre Environment Experience
- Anaesthetics
- Recovery
- Scrub

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