Theatre Practitioner – Charge Nurse / ODP | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 December 2025 |
| Location: | Chelmsford, CM17ET |
| Company: | Southend University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7574766/390-TA-BR-6726 |
Summary
Mid and South Essex Trust are looking to recruit Theatre Practitioners across all of our hospital sites and specialities.
We are looking for enthusiastic Theatre Practitioner – Charge Nurse / ODP with sound clinical knowledge with Theatre Clinical skills or a desire to develop into a Theatre Practitioner’s role.
This really is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills and move your career forward in a best learning and supportive environment.
Our Theatre Practitioners work towards providing high quality patient care within the perioperative setting. We welcome both experience and non-experience staff to join our supportive team. Training can also be provided to support newly registered practitioners and to those who are looking for a new career direction.
As a team we aim for excellence in delivering exceptional care, acting with compassion towards our patients and team colleagues whilst appreciating the value and being respectful towards one another. Therefore, experience of team work, team values and safe patient care is very important to this role.
For our successful candidates, we will aid in the development of your career, to enable this we have dedicated full time Training and Education Leads. We work closely with Anglia Ruskin University which provides courses such as Perioperative Advances in safe and Effective Patient Care and the NHS Leadership Academy for leadership courses at different levels. The Trust also provides many other In-house learning opportunities to support your developmental needs.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
The main job description responsibilities include providing highly skilled clinical assistance working closely with all members of the multidisciplinary team, to ensure that all perioperative patients receives a high level of quality, skilled, evidence based nursing care.
This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Dec 2025