Theatre Practitioner - Orthopaedic Theatre
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Registered Operating Department Practitioner or Nurse Theatre Practitioner to join the Orthopaedic Theatre team at Royal Derby Hospital. The successful candidate will provide high-quality, individualized perioperative patient care within a busy multidisciplinary environment. The position involves working across various orthopaedic surgery specialities, including robotics and spine, and requires participation in on-call, weekend, and Bank Holiday rotas.
Essential criteria
- NMC/ODP registration
- Experience & Knowledge
- Ability to evaluate own strengths and development needs
Desirable criteria
- Theatre Experience
- Experience of theatres, especially Ortho, spines and trauma
- NVQ / or equivalent assessor qualification
- Has an understanding of reflective practice and clinical supervision
- Skills and Ability
- To be able to demonstrate problem solving skills
- Has an understanding of Clinical Governance
- Education, Training and Qualifications CPD Requirements
- NMC/ODP registration
- Experience & Knowledge
- Ability to evaluate own strengths and development needs
- Theatre Experience
- Experience of theatres, especially Ortho, spines and trauma
- NVQ / or equivalent assessor qualification
- Has an understanding of reflective practice and clinical supervision
- Skills and Ability
- To be able to demonstrate problem solving skills
- Has an understanding of Clinical Governance
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
We are looking for Registered Operating Department Practitioners or Nurse Theatre Practitioners to join our Orthopaedic Theatre family at the Royal Derby Hospital. Preferably with Orthopaedic experience, but not essential as training will be given.
The suite comprises of 8 operating theatres offering all aspects of orthopaedic and trauma work, including robotics and spine.
The successful candidates will become integral to the multidisciplinary team in a busy and supportive environment, and will be able to confidently assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
If you are passionate about shaping and developing the patient care of the future and excited about working within a fast-moving, forward-thinking environment, then this would be the ideal position for you. We welcome applications from all motivated and dedicated individuals.
We offer yearly mandatory training, in-house training and have a brilliant Clinical Education Team . Other training can also be arranged at the manager's discretion.
Main duties of the job
The role requires the individual to work within our multidisciplinary team providing high quality, individualised, perioperative patient care within the remit of Trust policies and procedures, with an opportunity to develop and extend skills across a variety of orthopaedic surgery specialities.
The post holder is expected to maintain
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