Scrub Nurse

Scrub Nurse – Spa Medica – Gateshead

Location: The Edge, Fifth Avenue, Team Valley, Gateshead, NE11 0XA

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, 4 days out of 6, from 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM

Here at Spa Medica, our focus is on patient care, safety and satisfaction. As the UK’s largest provider of NHS cataract surgery, we’re experts at what we do, and that’s evidenced in the five‑star feedback we receive from our patients.

Joining us as a Scrub Nurse you will support our visions and values of safety, integrity, kindness and transparency are embedded in our day to day care to ensure we deliver the best service possible.

Responsibilities:

• Adhere to the principles of clinical governance.
• Admission and discharge of patients on a theatre day.
• Administer drugs in accordance to the NMC guidelines for the safe and secure handling of medicines.
• Adhere to The NMC guidelines for record keeping.
• Provide scrub experience for clinical procedures.
• Follow correct procedure for reporting any accidents or incidents.
• Assist the consultant and clinical team in the delivery of all ophthalmic care.
• Prepare all areas prior to any clinical activities, ensuring all equipment is checked and ready for use.
• Ensure the correct storage of all equipment.
• Adhere to all policies and procedures.
• Assist with stock control, ensuring realistic par levels are maintained and all items are readily available.
• Manages all the theatre equipment on a daily basis.
• To ensure patient confidentiality at all times in accordance with the Data Protection Act.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday (increasing with length of service) + Bank Holidays
• Discretionary Performance bonuses awarded twice a year
• Company performance bonus
• Personal performance bonus
• Professional membership fee reimbursement
• Enhanced Maternity & Adoption pay
• Free uniform
• Free flu vaccinations and DBS
• Reimbursement for eye tests and glasses (up to £75)
• Eligibility for Bluelight card
• Continuous training and development (apprenticeships, internal development programmes)
• Recommend a Friend Scheme (£350 reward for both)
• Access to exclusive discounts, colleague perks, online recognition and wellbeing hub on our Spa Medica&Me platform

Equality and Diversity: Spa Medica is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity, and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce. All individuals, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, are encouraged to apply for this post.

Disability Confidence: We are a Disability Confident employer and are committed to inclusive recruitment practices. We welcome applications from individuals with disabilities.