Anaesthetic Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 02/10/2026
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Role summary
NHS Professionals is seeking experienced Anaesthetic Practitioners to join the bank staff at University Hospital Southampton. This role involves providing high-standard, individualised patient care across various theatre areas, including Trauma Orthopaedics, ENT, Vascular, Cardiac, and Neuro. The successful candidate will work in a highly pressurised environment, demonstrating maturity, motivation, and enthusiasm. You will be responsible for assessing, planning, delivering, and evaluating patient-centred care.
Essential criteria
- Qualified Registered Nurse / ODP with NMC/HCPC registration
- Minimum of 12-months experience working in anaesthetics in the UK in the past 3-years - we cannot accept ANY experience from outside the UK
- Qualified Registered Nurse / ODP with NMC/HCPC registration
- Minimum of 12-months experience working in anaesthetics in the UK in the past 3-years - we cannot accept ANY experience from outside the UK
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 21d
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NHS Professionals Limited
Anaesthetic Practitioner
The closing date is 02 October 2026
Job summary
NHS Professionals are looking for bank ANAESTHETIC PRACTITIONERS to support the theatres team at University Hospital Southampton
UHS has 40 theatres, you will work across multiple areas including Trauma Orthopaedics, ENT Max Fac, Vascular, Thoracic, General and CEPOD along with Cardiac and Neuro. The team also works in X Ray, Cath labs, Angio suites CT and MRI scanners. We support our ED colleagues caring for Level One Trauma, we are an adult and paediatric Major Trauma Centre.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing a high standard of individualised patient care, in accordance with agreed policies and within available resources, which has the Trust core values at its heart. You should be able to demonstrate the aptitude to work in highly pressurised situations with maturity, motivation, enthusiasm, and common sense.
-We are looking for an experienced ODP/RN who is ready for the next step in their Anaesthetics career, is passionate and will strive to inspire, develop and support every patient, every colleague, every day.
-As a Band 5 ODP/RN in anaesthetics you will have recent post- registration experience within an acute theatre environment.
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