Registered Practitioner - Anaesthetics
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Registered Practitioner in Anaesthetics, open to ODPs or Registered Nurses with anaesthetic training and experience. You will support anaesthetists in delivering safe anaesthesia and work across various theatre areas, including participating in a full shift rota with evenings, nights, weekends, and on-call commitments. The position involves preparing theatres, managing equipment, and ensuring patient safety and comfort within a multidisciplinary team. You will rotate across all theatre areas, including the QEII site, covering a wide range of surgical specialties.
Key responsibilities
- Receive, transfer and position patients for clinical procedure.
- Prepare the Theatre for surgery and prepare sterile equipment/ supplies, keeping waste to a minimum.
- Be responsible for preparation, safe use, decontamination, troubleshooting and reporting of faulty complex equipment.
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure the safety and comfort of patients.
- Be flexible to be able to work in any of the Theatre areas according to service needs.
- Work on-call and out of hours, regardless of the department you are based in, to provide emergency access to acutely ill patients.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse or Registered ODP
- Must be willing to undertake relevant post registration courses as advised by the Practice Educators/ Theatre Team Leaders
- Gained through undertaking relevant study
- Post qualification experience within the perioperative setting
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Basic IT skills
- Can organise and prioritise
- Ability to demonstrate initiative
- Flexible
- Clear written and spoken English
- Aware of the National 6 Cs campaign
- Aware of Trust's Values
- An understanding of peri-operative patient care
- Understanding of aseptic technique
- Participate in audit
- Team work
- Knowledge of the aims of the Trust
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Role model our Trust values every day
Desirable criteria
- ILS/ALS
- PILS
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Evidence of mentorship & preceptorship training
- Relevant experience in either an inpatient or day surgery theatre, maternity theatre or other relevant clinical area.
- Peri-operative practice, skilled in recovery and scrub
- Experience of providing clinical support outside of the theatre area
- Good planning skills. Can effectively and efficiently run a theatre list Can participate in the audit process
- Can perform in the role of scrub and circulating assistant, recovery or has relevant experience within a critical / acute care setting
- Has relevant experience within maternity or gynaecology surgery.
- Knowledge of privacy / dignity & infection control relating to theatre area
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £31,049 – £37,796 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Registered Practitioner - Anaesthetics
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
We are recruiting for a Registered Practitioner - Anaesthetics - who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This post is open to Operating Department Practitioners or Registered Nurses with recognised anaesthetic training and experience, who are committed to delivering high quality peri-operative care within a busy and supportive theatre environment.
Our Theatre service provides care for both elective and emergency patients, including admission and recovery pathways, and operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. As part of the theatre team, you will be expected to participate in a full shift rota including evenings, nights, weekends, Bank Holidays, and on-call commitments.
The successful candidate will primarily work within the anaesthetic team, supporting patients throughout the peri-operative pathway and assisting the anaesthetist in the safe delivery of anaesthesia. There will also be an expectation to work collaboratively across the wider theatre team to maintain safe and effective patient care.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, Improve.
We expect all staff to demonstrate these values throughout the recruitment proces
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