Theatre Scrub Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are looking to recruit dynamic and flexible Band 5 Scrub Practitioner at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust. You will be rewarded with real job satisfaction as confirmed by our employee surveys. This satisfaction comes from working in a team that puts patient’s interests at the heart of everything they do.

Our driving force is our ability to invest in our people, as we support our Theatre Nurses and ODPs to build their skills through mentoring and formal training such as ALS and PLS.

The role involves working a rota pattern across 7 days Monday – Sunday, including days and nights.

Soon to be qualified student nurses and ODPs are welcome to apply.

Please Note: Candidates will be asked to provide original certificates for qualifications at interview stage.

Main duties of the job

Spread over three sites Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh cover both acute and elective surgery with a wide procedure portfolio .

Across our three theatre sites teams work closely with some of the region’s leading consultants and are exposed to the latest innovative, evidence -based clinical techniques, on our Wigan site we have our integrated laparoscopic theatre our Wrightington site have investing a surgical robot and our Leigh site is currently expanding to four operating theatres.

Here on the Wigan site we undertake adult and paediatric elective and emergency surgery, with Wrightington and Leigh focusing on elective adult surgery.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse/ODP with current NMC/HCPC registration.

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrate ability as professional role model.
  • Experience of working on own and as a member of a team.

Skills

Essential

  • Highly developed interpersonal, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
  • Developed analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Ability to maintain and improve standards of care.
  • Ability to plan and prioritise own and other’s workload.
  • Evidence of ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Demonstrate ability as a professional role model.
  • Standard keyboard skills and use of health care IT packages such as, ORMIS, HIS etc.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Sound understanding of principles of Clinical Governance (NatSSIPs, Risk Management & Audit) relating to perioperative practice
  • Sound knowledge of factors affecting efficiency in the perioperative care.

Additional

Essential

  • Flexibility within contracted hours to meet the demands of the department.
  • Ability to support colleagues in other perioperative disciplines within own level of competence e.g. anaesthetic, scrub and PACU.
  • Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation

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: 15 November 2026

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