Theatre Nurse / Operating Department Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for you to work full time, within our orthopaedic scrub team.

The theatre department has a state of the art facilities across the Trust.

We have twenty seven Adult and Obstetrics theatres within Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust covering a diverse range of both elective and emergency work in a variety of specialties including General Surgery, Robotics, Trauma and Orthopaedics and Obstetrics.

We have position at Theatres at North Tyneside General hospital.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

  • Delivering excellent standards of care and providing patient support Elective Orthopaedic and trauma surgery , advocating on behalf of the dependent patient.
  • Undertaking the Scrub practitioner role, ensuring safe environment and practice is maintained.
  • Working with, and supporting other members of the multi-disciplinary team. Preparation and monitoring of the environment of care, and equipment.
  • Supervising junior colleagues, unregistered staff and students.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1 st 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
  • Diploma/degree in nursing/or health related topic
  • Post Registration qualification in specialty

Experience and knowledge

Desirable

  • Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
  • Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
  • Completion of in-house training scheme

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 11 October 2026

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