Overview
Are you passionate about exceptional patient care and eager to join a supportive, high-performing clinical team? We are seeking a compassionate Theatre Support Worker to join our dynamic theatre department at Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
In this hands-on role, you’ll play a vital part in caring for patients at vulnerable moments. Working alongside Registered Nurses and multidisciplinary colleagues, you’ll provide direct and indirect patient care, ensuring every individual feels safe, respected, and supported.
Responsibilities
* Help maintain a safe and efficient theatre environment by preparing areas, supporting infection prevention, and assisting colleagues in the scrub role.
* Provide direct and indirect patient care in collaboration with the theatre team.
* Demonstrate professionalism, attention to detail, and a positive attitude to support the smooth running of theatres and the quality of care.
Required qualities
* Empathetic, reliable and team-oriented attitude.
* Commitment to high standards and treating patients and families with dignity and compassion.
About the Trust
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. We expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We are a clinically-led organisation.
Our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, and the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care with King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Visa sponsorship and eligibility
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed; as of 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Mar 2026
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