*Job Overview*
Ready to take your perioperative career to the next level? Join our dynamic Theatre team and be part of something truly exceptional. As a Band 5 RGN (NMC) or Registered ODP (HCPC), you'll play a vital role at the heart of life-changing surgical care—where every day brings variety, challenge, teamwork, and the opportunity to make a real difference.
Working across anaesthetics, scrub and recovery, you'll deliver outstanding, patient-centred care in a fast-paced, supportive environment that champions learning, innovation, and continuous improvement. You'll develop advanced clinical skills in airway management, medicines administration, and complex perioperative practice, while collaborating with highly skilled multidisciplinary professionals who are passionate about excellence.
We're proud of our strong team culture, commitment to professional development, and focus on quality and safety. You'll be empowered to grow, supported to succeed, and encouraged to contribute ideas that shape the future of surgical services.
If you're resilient, compassionate, and thrive under pressure, this is more than a job—it's an exciting opportunity to build a rewarding career where your expertise truly matters and your impact is felt every single day.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Working for our organisation
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. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that 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, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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*Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities*
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge
*Essential Criteria*
* Evidence of good communication skills with clear written and oral skills.
* Evidence of effective organisation abilities and supervisory skills
*Qualifications
Essential criteria*
* 1 st level NMC Registered Nurse or HCPC registered ODP at either degree or diploma level
* Clear evidence of Continued professional development.
Desirable criteria
* Anaesthetic module for registered RGN's
Further Training
*Essential Criteria*
* Diploma or degree in operating department practice
* Degree level Registered Nurse
Desirable criteria
* Evidence of personal and professional development
*Experience
Essential criteria*
* Experience in the peri-operative environment
Desirable criteria
* Mentorship or an equivalent qualification
* Dual role – Anaesthetics and scrub
Contractual
*Essential Criteria*
* Ability to work across sites when necessary
* Ability to contribute to the on-call rota and work unsociable hours
* Adhere to the NMC code or the HCPC conduct, performance, and ethics standard