Contract Scrub Nurse / Operating Department Practitioner (RGN/ODP)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 29.25
- Posted
- 04/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves working as a Scrub Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner within a small surgical theatre team, primarily focusing on skin plastic surgery. The post holder will perform all tasks of a Registered General Theatre Nurse/Registered Operating Department Practitioner, following local policies and national guidelines. Key responsibilities include assessing patient care needs, maintaining accurate records, and ensuring the smooth running of theatre lists. The role requires autonomous working and good decision-making skills.
Essential criteria
- For this position you need to be an RGN or ODP with Scrub experience, ideally in a plastics environment.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in plastics would be beneficial.
- For this position you need to be an RGN or ODP with Scrub experience, ideally in a plastics environment.
- Experience in plastics would be beneficial.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £31,846 – £31,846 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Cotswold Surgical Partners
Contract Scrub Nurse / Operating Department Practitioner (RGN/ODP)
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Offering a unique and highly personal service can be hugely rewarding, changing peoples lives for the better every single day. Cotswold Surgical Partners offers quality health care that is locally delivered. We have a clear set of core values that we are passionate about when it comes to the quality of care we provide to our patients, and our staff are at the heart of this.
We are a small, inclusive and friendly employer which offers a range of flexible working arrangements and a competitive package of pay and benefits that include a comprehensive employee assistance programme and private healthcare.
We're looking for an experienced Scrub Nurse (RGN/ODP) to join our skin plastic surgery team at our main premises in Royal Wootton Bassett and do sessional work at our rented facility in Melksham. We're a small, friendly and caring team providing a range of NHS funded and private procedures. We have two day-case operating theatres where we complete mainly skin cancer excisions under local anaesthetic alongside a range of outpatient dermatology procedures.
Main duties of the job
As a member of a small surgical theatre team, you will perform all the tasks of a Registered General Theatre Nurse/Registered Operating Department Pr
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