Job overview
Band 5 Staff Nurse / ODP – Guy’s Main Theatres
We are currently offering an excellent developmental opportunity for a Scrub Nurse / Operating Department Practitioner, preferably with previous scrub experience, to join our team in Guy’s Main Theatres. This role will allow you to work alongside our excellent theatre team and develop your skills across a variety of specialties, including ENT, MaxFax, Urology, Renal, Thoracics, Pain, Robotics, Cleft, and Orthopaedics.
What can we offer you?
We want you to be the best you can be and would support you in achieving your goals through our in-house training programs and tertiary study at our affiliated universities. Our TAP (Theatres, Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine) Academy aims to develop a team of practitioners, with knowledge and skills to care for patients, recognizing the commitments of our staff and rewarding achievements.
Training and support is provided whilst we develop your existing skills and knowledge in each aspect of the Perioperative environment.
Closing Date: Midnight 6th April 2026
Interview Date: 16th April 2026
Main duties of the job
If you are an scrub nurse/ODP with previous experience and looking to further develop your career and expand your skills within a range of clinical specialities, this may be the area for you. Our long history of cutting edge surgery means that you could be involved in some of the worlds most advanced procedures.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Provide high-quality, safe and effective nursing care within the operating theatre environment
2. Work as part of the multidisciplinary theatre team supporting elective and emergency surgery
3. Maintain aseptic technique and comply with infection prevention and control policies
4. Prepare theatre environments, equipment and instrumentation for surgical procedures
5. Assist surgeons and anaesthetists, anticipating clinical needs during procedures
6. Complete accurate documentation, including WHO surgical safety checklists
7. Ensure safe management of instruments, swab counts, equipment and medications
8. Contribute to a safe, efficient and well-organised theatre service
9. Support students, new staff and contribute to a positive learning environment
10. Participate in audit, quality improvement and service development activities
11. Maintain NMC registration and adhere to Trust policies and professional standards
12. Engage in mandatory training, appraisal and ongoing professional development
13. Work flexibly, including on-call duties, weekends and nights as required by the service
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
14. RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
15. Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
16. Teaching & assessing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
17. Experience of working in the relevant area
18. Experience of working on own and in a team
19. Completion of preceptorship
20. Experience of administering intravenous drug therapy
Desirable criteria
21. Previous experience in other nursing fields
Skills
Essential criteria
22. Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate programmes of care
23. Able to work as an effective team member
24. Ability to administer prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products
25. Knowledge of Evidence Based Practice
26. Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
27. Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
28. Able to maintain clear and legible documentation
Desirable criteria
29. Awareness of the structure and organisation of the NHS
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.