Senior Orthopaedic Scrub Practitioner

Chichester Hospital | Nursing | Permanent contract | Full time

Up to £45,000.00 per annum, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity. From our innovative healthcare and leisure facilities to our community access programmes, we’re committed to building a healthier nation. Inside our award-winning hospitals, this starts with commitment to quality and the highest standards of patient care. It starts with you. 

As a Senior Orthopaedic Scrub Practitioner at our hospital, you’ll be focused, detail-oriented, empathetic with great communication skills. You’re registered with the appropriate governing body, and you bring the qualifications and experience relevant to your registration, including NMC or HCPC. With post-registration experience in Scrub roles within a Theatre environment, you’re a team player with a passion for exceptional patient care. 

As a Senior Scrub Practitioner you will:

Work on a varied caseload using technology, equipment and facilities which are all state-of-the-art

Supervise, support and develop junior members of the team

Deliver high quality care and experiences for patients, which is always clinically effective, evidence based and appropriate

Be trained as a Surgical First Assistant or be prepared to undertake the training with us at Nuffield Health

Experienced in completing clinical audits where appropriate – full training will be provided

The Person

To succeed as a Senior Scrub Practitioner you will have:

High levels of focus and engagement

A passion for high standards and a meticulous eye for detail

Excellent communication skills and will be a great team worker

You will also be flexible and motivated

Promote the best evidence based practice within own scope of practice

Able to engage with colleagues at all levels across the hospital and contribute appropriately to achieving hospital goals within a multi-disciplinary team

Helping you feel good.

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.

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital.

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital is a 30 bedded hospital within walking distance of the city centre with free onsite car parking.  The hospital has two laminar flow operating theatres, a JAG accredited endoscopy unit and two minor treatment rooms in the outpatient department.  There is a small radiology department and CT/ MRI services are provided in a mobile unit.  Inpatient physiotherapy is provided within the hospital whilst our outpatients attend the fitness and wellbeing centre at Chichester gate for their follow up physio and hydrotherapy treatments. 

Our main speciality is orthopaedics. We also care for patients needing treatment within the specialties of gynaecology, urology, general surgery, plastic surgery, ophthalmology max fax, and pain. We provide outpatient services for dermatology, cardiology, neurology, and rheumatology.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

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It starts with you.