Job summary
Join the Team That's Shaping the Future of Elective Orthopaedic Surgery

Do you want to work somewhere your skills are valued, your development is supported, and your work genuinely makes a difference?

At Pontefract Hospital Theatres, we're building something exciting.

As a newly accredited Elective Orthopaedic Hub within Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, we're expanding our theatre team and are looking for enthusiastic, motivated Registered Nurses and Operating Department Practitioners to help deliver outstanding care for our patients.

This is more than just another theatre role. It's an opportunity to become part of a friendly, highly skilled team where collaboration, respect and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything we do.

Why Choose Pontefract Hospital?
Our theatres provide planned elective surgery within a calm, organised environment, allowing our teams to focus on delivering exceptional patient care without many of the pressures associated with emergency operating.

As part of our multidisciplinary theatre team, you will provide safe, high-quality perioperative care across a range of elective surgical specialties, with a particular focus on our expanding orthopaedic service.

You will play an important role in delivering excellent patient outcomes while supporting the continued growth of our newly accredited Orthopaedic Hub.

Main duties of the job
As a Theatre Practitioner, you will be a valued member of our multidisciplinary team, delivering safe, compassionate and high-quality perioperative care to patients undergoing elective surgery within our newly accredited Elective Orthopaedic Hub.

Working alongside surgeons, anaesthetists and theatre colleagues, you will play a key role in ensuring every patient receives outstanding care throughout their perioperative journey while contributing to the continued development of our expanding elective service.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Delivering high standards of patient-centred care throughout the perioperative journey, ensuring patients feel safe, informed and supported at every stage of their surgical experience.
• Providing skilled anaesthetic assistance as an autonomous practitioner, anticipating the needs of the anaesthetist, preparing equipment and responding effectively to changes in the patient's condition.
• Working as a scrub practitioner, ideally within elective orthopaedic surgery, maintaining strict aseptic technique, preparing specialist instrumentation and supporting the surgical team to deliver safe, efficient and high-quality care.
• Actively maintaining and developing competence in both anaesthetic and scrub practice, embracing opportunities to broaden your clinical expertise in line with service development and supporting the continued growth and resilience of the accredited Elective Orthopaedic Hub.

About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Job responsibilities
Qualifications

• RODP/RN
• Willingness to undertake mentorship/assessor qualification

Experience

• Previous experience in theatre setting

Knowledge and Awareness

• Essential knowledge of your own speciality and current issues in health care
• Ability to demonstrate evidence based practice.
• Continued Professional Development
• Awareness of own limitations

Skills and Abilities

• An ability to work within the peri-operative team and organise and prioritise own and others workload.
• Commitment to training

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to review the full requirements.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Please click apply now to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).

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.

Employer details
Employer name: The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address: Pontefract Hospital, Friarwood Lane, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF8 1PL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Unit Manager
Michelle Mitchell
michelle.mitchell3@nhs.net

Details
Date posted: 11 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 001473
Job locations: Pontefract Hospital, Friarwood Lane, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF8 1PL, United Kingdom