Senior Theatre Practitioner
Healthcare Management Trust – St Hugh’s Hospital · Theatre Practitioner · viaNHS Jobs
£41554.50
- Closing date
- 30 Oct 2026
- Posted
- Today
- Specialism
- Theatre Practitioner
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Reference
- nhs-5669052
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Job summary
Make every contact count. Make a difference every day.
Are you an experienced Theatre Practitioner ready to take the next step in your career? Do you have the clinical expertise, leadership skills and passion for delivering exceptional patient care?
At the Healthcare Management Trust (HMT), we are looking for a motivated and skilled Senior Theatre Practitioner to join our theatre team. This is an exciting opportunity to provide visible clinical leadership, support the development of colleagues and help deliver safe, compassionate and high-quality perioperative care.
If you are passionate about clinical excellence, enjoy supporting others to reach their potential and want to play an active role in improving patient outcomes, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As Senior Theatre Practitioner, you will play a key leadership role in the day-to-day running of the theatre department, helping to ensure the safe, effective and efficient delivery of high-quality patient care.
Working across your specialist area of practice, you will act as a clinical role model, supporting colleagues, promoting best practice and maintaining the highest professional standards. You will work closely with the Theatre Manager, surgeons, anaesthetic teams, recovery practitioners and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure excellent patient experiences and outcomes.
You will have the opportunity to contribute to service development, staff education and continuous improvement, helping to create a positive environment where colleagues feel supported and patients receive outstanding care.
About us
At the Healthcare Management Trust, we are driven by our vision to be the most innovative and best-quality provider of niche health and social care services.
Our purpose is to make every contact count, ensuring every resident and patient receives the best possible experience and outcome.
We put our patients, residents and people at the heart of everything we do. We believe in collaboration, compassionate care and always doing the right thing. We are outward-looking, embrace innovation and are bold in our ambition to make things better.
We want our people to bring their authentic selves to work, take pride in what they do and find joy in being part of a supportive, dedicated team.
Our values guide everything we do. We are:
- Caring putting people first and treating everyone with compassion and respect.
- Enterprising embracing new ideas and finding better ways to deliver care.
- Resourceful making the best use of our skills, knowledge and resources.
- Authentic being genuine, open and true to ourselves.
- Accountable taking responsibility for our actions and the quality of our work.
Our benefits include:
Private Medical Insurance
Employer pension contribution
Wellbeing support
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Recruitment referral scheme
Continuous learning
Career progression
Flexible working options
27 Days Annual Leave (Plus Bank holidays)
Enhanced Maternity Pay
Details
Date posted
16 October 2026
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£41,554.50 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
B0318-26-0025
Job locations
St. Hughs Hospital
Peaks Lane
Grimsby
DN32 9RP
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical leadership and patient care
- Provide expert clinical support and leadership within the theatre team, maintaining safe, effective and compassionate care.
- Scrub for a range of surgical specialties and levels of complexity, working within your assessed competencies and scope of practice.
- Undertake circulating duties and support the preparation, set-up and clearing of theatres.
- Complete and oversee appropriate safety checks, including swab, instrument and needle counts, working with a second practitioner and escalating discrepancies immediately.
- Ensure the safe labelling, handling and dispatch of surgical specimens, alongside accurate and comprehensive patient documentation.
- Support safe patient transfers and handovers, ensuring relevant information is communicated clearly and effectively.
- Exercise sound clinical judgement, advocate for patients and respond confidently to changing clinical demands.
- Undertake Surgical First Assistant duties where appropriately trained, competent and authorised.
- Participate in on-call duties as required.
Team leadership and development
- Act as a positive clinical role model, promoting teamwork, professional accountability and high standards of practice.
- Support the Theatre Manager with staff allocation, skill mix planning and the management of changing staffing requirements.
- Help induct, mentor and develop colleagues, including students and new members of the department.
- Teach and assess colleagues in the technical aspects of the scrub role, sharing knowledge and promoting evidence-based practice.
- Encourage effective communication, maintain team morale and contribute to a supportive working environment.
- Act as a link practitioner for an agreed specialty, helping to share knowledge and implement improvements.
Quality, safety and service improvement
- Contribute to clinical audits, incident reporting, quality assurance and improvement initiatives.
- Support the development and review of departmental policies, procedures and clinical guidelines.
- Promote compliance with relevant professional standards, local policies and national perioperative guidance, including NICE and AfPP recommendations where applicable.
- Support the safe use, maintenance and procurement of theatre equipment and stock, working within departmental budgets.
- Keep up to date with developments in perioperative practice and help introduce improvements that enhance patient safety and service delivery.
- Maintain patient confidentiality and comply with data protection, safeguarding and clinical governance requirements.
Job responsibilities
Clinical leadership and patient care
- Provide expert clinical support and leadership within the theatre team, maintaining safe, effective and compassionate care.
- Scrub for a range of surgical specialties and levels of complexity, working within your assessed competencies and scope of practice.
- Undertake circulating duties and support the preparation, set-up and clearing of theatres.
- Complete and oversee appropriate safety checks, including swab, instrument and needle counts, working with a second practitioner and escalating discrepancies immediately.
- Ensure the safe labelling, handling and dispatch of surgical specimens, alongside accurate and comprehensive patient documentation.
- Support safe patient transfers and handovers, ensuring relevant information is communicated clearly and effectively.
- Exercise sound clinical judgement, advocate for patients and respond confidently to changing clinical demands.
- Undertake Surgical First Assistant duties where appropriately trained, competent and authorised.
- Participate in on-call duties as required.
Team leadership and development
- Act as a positive clinical role model, promoting teamwork, professional accountability and high standards of practice.
- Support the Theatre Manager with staff allocation, skill mix planning and the management of changing staffing requirements.
- Help induct, mentor and develop colleagues, including students and new members of the department.
- Teach and assess colleagues in the technical aspects of the scrub role, sharing knowledge and promoting evidence-based practice.
- Encourage effective communication, maintain team morale and contribute to a supportive working environment.
- Act as a link practitioner for an agreed specialty, helping to share knowledge and implement improvements.
Quality, safety and service improvement
- Contribute to clinical audits, incident reporting, quality assurance and improvement initiatives.
- Support the development and review of departmental policies, procedures and clinical guidelines.
- Promote compliance with relevant professional standards, local policies and national perioperative guidance, including NICE and AfPP recommendations where applicable.
- Support the safe use, maintenance and procurement of theatre equipment and stock, working within departmental budgets.
- Keep up to date with developments in perioperative practice and help introduce improvements that enhance patient safety and service delivery.
- Maintain patient confidentiality and comply with data protection, safeguarding and clinical governance requirements.
What you need to do now
Applications are handled by Healthcare Management Trust – St Hugh’s Hospital on their own site — BOQQS does not collect CVs or hold your application. This listing closes on 30 Oct 2026.
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