Theatre Support Worker | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,625 - £25,674 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2025 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 5JL |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Apprenticeship |
| Job reference: | 7269269/432-HR354-25 |
Summary
Colchester Hospital has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join our caring, supportive, and compassionate theatre teams as a Theatre Support Worker. This position is ideal for an individual who is passionate and committed to delivering high-quality patient focused care.
At Colchester, our theatre suites comprise of 17 days case and inpatient theatres. Constable Theatres have patients for elective orthopaedics, orthopaedic trauma, gynaecology and breast surgery. There will be opportunity to gain skills in other specialties by rotating internally to the other theatre suites.
We are committed to developing our staff and this exciting position offers opportunity for ongoing professional development.
In this role you will support patients throughout their theatre journey, working with a multi-disciplinary theatre team ensuring an individual, safe and positive experience.
Training will be provided and you will learn extensive skills within an acute theatre environment.
If you have a good standard of written and verbal communication, have a support and flexible approach to service delivery and would like to train as a theatre support worker, this may be the position for you.
The trust offers a range of benefits, including paid annual leave, occupational sick pay, NHS pension and a range of staff discounts.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Jun 2025