Theatre Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Hexham, NE461QJView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
7 October 2026
6 days leftJob description
We are looking for Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner to join our Orthopaedic Team and Anaesthetic Team within the elective theatre...
- Delivering excellent standards of care and providing patient support, advocating on behalf of the dependent patient.
- Undertaking the role of the orthopaedic scrub or Anaesthetic practitioner, ensuring safe practice is maintained and patients have a positive and safe procedure and delivering high quality care.
- Working with, and supporting other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Ensuring all equipment is maintained and in working condition.
- Supervising junior colleagues, unregistered staff and students within your role and working alongside other wards and departments and other members of the MDT
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care under the direction of the senior nurse/SODP
- To assist in the provision of nursing care and maintain high clinical standards
- To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Develop over time and contribute to the management of a clinical area and take charge in the absence of Senior Nurse/ODP
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates teamworking and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Experience and knowledge
Desirable
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
- Evidence of ongoing practice development
Qualifications
Essential
- 1st Level live NMC Registered General Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner qualification
- Evidence of ongoing practice development
- Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period unless post is bank only)
Desirable
- Recognised post graduate theatre/anaesthetic qualification
- Recognised teaching qualification
- Post Registration qualification in specialty
- Diploma/degree in nursing/or health related topic
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
23 September 2026
Last checked
25 September 2026
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