About this role
Job summary
Join our dynamic Operating Theatres team as a Theatre Support Worker and make a real difference to patient care. Working under the guidance of Registered Nurses and Operating Department Practitioners, you'll support all stages of the surgical journey--pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative.
Your role will include preparing theatre environments, assisting with patient transfers, setting up and maintaining equipment, handling specimens, and supporting infection control standards. You'll help during procedures with patient positioning, swab counts, and equipment management, while ensuring patient dignity, confidentiality, and safety at all times.
This physically active role involves manual handling, moving equipment, and standing for extended periods. You'll work closely within a multidisciplinary team, communicate effectively, and contribute to a smooth, efficient, and safe theatre service.
If you are compassionate, reliable, and enjoy working in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, this role offers excellent opportunities to develop your skills and play a vital part in delivering outstanding surgical care.
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.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements Essential
Able to demonstrate clear and robust verbal and written English communication skills
Qualifications Essential
GCSE Maths and English or equivalent Care Certificate or commitment to achieving within 2 weeks of commencement Apprenticeship Level 3 in Care or equivalent vocational experience
Further Training Essential
Able to attend a 5-day Clinical Induction Committed to attending further training and development as identified Will be required to achieve a level 3 apprenticeship once established in role
Experience Essential
Experience of working as part of a team Previous care work experience Previous face to face customer care experience
Desirable
Previous experience in a hospital setting
Contractual Requirements Essential
Able to work flexibly on a varied shift pattern according to the roster including nights and weekends
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Mansfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)