Theatre Orderly

Job summary

Are you ready to join a dynamic healthcare team and make a meaningful difference to patients every day? We are looking for a dedicated and organised Theatre Orderly to join our busy Operating Theatres at King's Mill Hospital.

As a Theatre Orderly, you'll play a vital role in keeping our theatres running safely, smoothly and efficiently. You'll work alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, supporting patients throughout their theatre journey and helping to deliver high-quality care across a wide range of specialities, including Orthopaedics, General Surgery, ENT, Gynaecology, Breast, Urology and Ophthalmology.

No two days will be the same. From safely collecting and transferring patients, completing identification checks and supporting patient positioning, to preparing equipment, maintaining theatre flow and ensuring high standards of cleanliness and infection control, your contribution will have a direct impact on both patient experience and the efficiency of our services.

This is a rewarding opportunity to become an important part of a supportive theatre team, where teamwork, compassion, reliability and attention to detail are valued. If you're organised, calm under pressure and passionate about providing excellent patient care, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

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.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, 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.

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Able to maintain patient confidentiality
• Work effectively with other professions with other professions
• Team worker
• Able to communicate effectively
• Remains calm under pressure
• Motivated
• Must understand basic requirements for individualised personal care
• Awareness of safeguarding issues
• Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect

Qualifications

Essential

• Good standard of education in English & Maths
• Care certificate or commitment to achieving within 2 weeks of commencement

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as part of a team
• Previous care work experience
• Previous face to face customer care experience

Desirable

• Theatre Portering/ orderly experience or experience in hospital setting

Contractual

Essential

• Able to work flexibly on a varied shift pattern according to the roster including nights and weekends