Senior Theatre Practitioner

Senior Theatre Practitioner

Newcastle Hospital | Nursing | Permanent | Full Time | Includes weekend work – Salary depending on skills and experience – 37.5 hours per week

Wherever you’re currently working, Nuffield Health is where you’ll excel. As the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity, we can offer you a unique opportunity to feel valued, free from constraints and able to grow your career, while you’re helping us offer the highest standards of care. Transforming patient care, focusing on what matters. It starts with you.

As a Senior Theatre Practitioner at our hospital, you’re registered with the appropriate governing body and you hold the relevant qualifications and experience, including HCPC registration. You bring a passion for high standards in perioperative care, a meticulous eye for detail and post‑registration experience. You’re a focused, flexible and motivated team worker.

• Prioritise patient safety, taking appropriate actions and encouraging colleagues to call out and report safety concerns.
• Promote a safe working environment for patients, visitors and staff (in full compliance with all policies and procedures).
• Support governance activity, ensuring full compliance with Nuffield Health’s Quality governance framework and national standards, e.g. CQC/ HIW/ HIS Regulation, fundamentals of care, professional standards and evidence‑based guidelines.
• Provide and lead care management and delivery, treating patients, families, friends and representatives with kindness, dignity, respect and compassion and support them to cope emotionally with their care, treatment or condition.
• Collaborate with other clinicians within the Hospital, building strong working relationships that enhance patient care and service delivery.
• Take charge of a theatre, co‑ordinating and delivering work activities and leading junior practitioners.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Located in Jesmond; you will be working at one of the north east’s leading private hospitals. With a Good CQC rating, we have 27 en‑suite private bedrooms, 3 state‑of‑the‑art operating theatres, a dedicated breast care unit. We offer on‑site pathology services and diagnostic imaging including CT and MRI, and we have on‑site physiotherapy specialists. We have a special focus in the areas of orthopaedics, spinal surgery, ophthalmology, weight loss surgery and cosmetic treatment.

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.