Bank Theatre Practitioner/ODP
Southgates Medical Centre & The Woottons Surgery
King's Lynn, PE30 5QXView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£18.90 to £20.38
Contract
Bank
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
7 October 2026
7 days leftJob description
We are looking for a Bank Theatre Practitioner to join our team. We currently operate on Wednesday's, Thursday's & Friday's (and occaisional Saturday'...
- PATIENT CARE
- Assess, plan and evaluate the care
given to patients, ensuring appropriate delivery.
- Maintain the high quality of care and
patient confidentiality to comply with the Data Protection Act. Also to comply with the Health & Safety at Work Act and all other
current relevant legislation
- Provide assistance to clinicians and
other theatre support staff
Title: Theatre
nurse/practitioner
Band: 6a
Reports to: The
Theatre Manager (for all management and operational issues)
Accountable to: The
Practice Manager, Partners and other visiting surgeons
Job purpose: To
provide safe and efficient care for those patients attending Southgates Medical
& Surgical Centre requiring out
patient and surgical intervention. To provide a safe working environment for
medical, nursing and ancillary staff. To
provide a safe clinical environment for all patient activity.
provide assistance to the surgeons in the delivery of direct and indirect
patient care through all aspects of the surgical unit.
participate as a senior integral member of the theatre team, delivering a cost
effective service to enable the partnership to provide surgical services at
Southgates Medical & Surgical Centre.
Key functions
- PATIENT CARE
- Assess, plan and evaluate the care
given to patients, ensuring appropriate delivery.
- Maintain the high quality of care and
patient confidentiality to comply with the Data Protection Act. Also to comply with the Health & Safety at Work Act and all other
current relevant legislation
- Provide assistance to clinicians and
other theatre support staff
CONSUMABLES AND PREPARTION FOR THEATRE LISTS
- Ensure the smooth running of surgical
- Cleaning of theatre and equipment as
per written policies
- Ensuring sterilisation of instruments
within agreed procedures
- Stock rotation and date checking
- Ordering and maintaining of stock
levels
- Ensuring correct disposal of waste
- Ensuring safe and correct despatch of
specimens
- Admission of patients to the unit
- Scrubbing and circulating for surgery
as and when required by the surgeon
- Managing the recovery of patients post
operatively as required
- Ensuring proficiency of all equipment
before use
- Keeping up to date with advances in
techniques and equipment utilised in the surgical unit
- Maintaining and utilising equipment in
accordance with the manufacturers instructions and in accordance with current technical
rules and recommendations.
- Advising surgeon of any equipment
faults immediately identified and responsibility for immediate remedial
action.
- Plan and evaluate the work carried out
by self to ensure clinical appropriateness and safety.
- Ensure effective communication within
the surgical team and with the rest of the practice team.
- Contribute to the implementation of
change. Attend surgical meetings, discuss relevant issues.
- Ensure surgical systems are adhered to
and that effective appointment systems, list alterations, cancellations etc are
utilised.
4 EDUCATION
- To maintain knowledge and skills within
current guidelines set by the NMC, AFPP and Health & Safety Executive
- To work with the surgeon to co-ordinate
requests for new and additional equipment, to maintain clinical excellence and
efficiency.
- To be aware of cost consequences of
delivering a quality patient service.
- To identify, where appropriate, cost
savings and efficiencies.
- Provide stocks of surgical equipment
for the theatre and to purchase these consumable items in a timely manner and
within allocated budgets.
- To ensure ongoing appropriate audit.
- To constructively identify areas of
clinical improvement within the surgical environment.
- To manage the critical incident/near
miss/learning issues systems within the surgical team.
7 INFORMATION
- To assist with data collection and
audit as required.
- To maintain overall confidentiality
- To exchange information and help solve
problems with the surgeon and make decisions within the surgical team.
- To maintain professional registration
and to advise the theatre manager of any difficulties in this regard.
- To practice with full regard to local
and national policies relating to surgical provision.
- To always work within statutory and
regulatory guidelines of the professional bodies.
This job description is not exhaustive
and employees are requested to be flexible in order to meet the needs of the
service which may change at short notice. The employer will offer a similar
level of flexibility. Any permanent
amendments to the job description will only be made after consultation with the
post holder
Agreed by post holder
Signature: Date:
Within our Surgical unit we have a team of around 10 staff & 4 surgeons. The team prides themselves on delivering the best possible care to our patients.
We are a warm and friendly Practice and you would be joining a great team.
We offer competitive rates of pay, an excellent Pension scheme and generous Holiday/sickness entitlement.
Qualifications
Essential: - Relevant Theatre/ODP qualifications.
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
24 September 2026
Last checked
28 September 2026
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