Scrub Theatre Practitioner | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £37,796 Per Annum, Pro Rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 October 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M23 9LT |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7483643/349-WTWA-7483643 |
Summary
We are looking for a dynamic, innovative and highly motivated registered practitioner (Nurse or ODP) with excellent clinical knowledge & scrub skills to join a core multidisciplinary team. You will be required to work across a variety of specialties such as Breast, General, Urology, robotic surgery, ENT, Max Fax, Orthopaedics, Gynaecology and Paediatrics.
In return for your dedication, you’ll benefit from in-house training to develop your core competencies, together with opportunities to undertake further courses in support of your ongoing development. We have a Preceptorship Programme and excellent PBE's and Clinical Educators on hand to support. Newly qualified nurses and ODP's encouraged to apply.
To develop to become an autonomous practitioner across all specialties with the indirect support of senior staff.
Participate in staff rotation through the various specialities.
Plan the day’s activity relating to surgery regarding equipment and patient care.
Provide peri-operative care in a systematic planned process using a series of integrated
steps, focusing interventions on individual patients’ needs.
Establish and maintain the sterile field ensuring minimisation of risk of infection through effective procedures.
Accountability for swabs, needles instrumentation and other equipment used during the procedure.
Safe labelling and transportation of specimens.
Prepare and return instruments for decontamination to the third party sterile services provider, with appropriate paperwork and reporting any missing items or other defects.
Provide skilled support to the scrubbed practitioner in the role of circulator.
Maintain responsibility for the identification of own continuing educational needs and development and take part in annual appraisal.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Monday 13 Oct 2025
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