Scrub Practitioner
| Posting date: | 17 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,000.00 to £45,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35000.00 - £45000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 December 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, IP2 0EE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0325-01-12-2025 |
Summary
Youll provide a competent scrub provision, supporting the surgeon through the daily theatre list, anticipating any potential problems and resolving these. At the end of the day, youll help clean down the theatre and in all you do youll ensure the highest standards are met in terms of patient safety, clinical compliance and hygiene levels. Aside from providing Scrub services in the theatre you'll also undertake medicine management and audit duties as well as maintaining accurate patient records. You'll manage clinical waste and ensure the correct disposal procedures are implemented. The thought of eye surgery can be a daunting prospect for patients to deal with, so our Scrub Nurses need to be empathetic and friendly and able to put patients at ease and help them feel comfortable during their time in surgery. What skills and experience do I need? You need to be a fully qualified Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner and need a current registration with the NMC or HCPC. In an ideal world you will already have ophthalmic experience in a theatre setting. If not in most cases we can teach this, as long as you already have extensive theatre scrub experience. The ideal candidate will have the ability to set up for vitrectomy surgery, have a full understanding of Phaco Instrumentation and have a working knowledge of Biometry/Lens bank/Implants.