The closing date is 23 July 2026

Job summary
Applications are invited from qualified Scrub Practitioners who wish to provide dynamic support to the Surgeons, Anaesthetists and the theatre teams. This post is looking to strengthen the structure within the Friarage theatre team.

The Surgical Hub offers state of the art technologies in a modern environment. The hub has 6 main theatres, 2 minor ops theatres, a 2 bay regional anaesthetic area and a 10 bay recovery area with onsite admission and discharge areas.

Main duties of the job
The theatres provide an operating service to the following clinical specialities:

• General Surgery
• Gynaecology
• Urology
• Plastic Surgery
• Orthopaedics
• Maxillo-facial
• ENT
• Ophthalmic

You will need to be an active member of the multidisciplinary team by demonstrating a range of essential skills to meet the needs of the patient in a safe caring environment that promotes evidence based practice

About us
We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our staff in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

• Your Leadership Impact
• Leading Your Team to Success
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these three and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effectively prioritises and co-ordinates own work.
• Good information technology skills.
• Commitment to the needs of the service including a flexible and adaptable approach in the work environment/ work practices.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse with NMC or ODP with HCPC
• Nursing Degree/Diploma or ODP qualification

Experience
Essential

• Theatre experience
• Experience working within an acute or community setting
• Experience of Multi-disciplinary working

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.

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

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.