Theatre Support Worker

Colchester Hospital has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join our caring, supportive, and compassionate theatre teams as a Theatre Support Worker. This position is ideal for an individual who are passionate and committed to delivering high-quality patient focused care.

At Colchester, our theatre suites comprise of 17 days case and inpatient theatres. Elmstead Day Surgical Unit is a busy surgical unit with 6 operating theatres covering a wide spectrum of specialities.

We are committed to developing our staff and this exciting position offers opportunity for ongoing professional development.

Please note you maybe required to undertake a Numeracy & Literacy test as part of the pre employment checks.

In this role you will support patients throughout their theatre journey, working with a multi-disciplinary theatre team ensuring an individual, safe and positive experience.

Training will be provided and you will learn extensive skills within an acute theatre environment.

If you have a good standard of written and verbal communication, have a support and flexible approach to service delivery and would like to train as a theatre support worker, this may be the position for you.

The trust offers a range of benefits, including paid annual leave, occupational sick pay, NHS pension and a range of staff discounts.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
- Provide a supportive role to all members of the theatre team in the delivery of patient care
- Prepare the theatre for the operating list
- Complete forms and electronic records as appropriate to each case, ensuring that these are accurate, legible and complete.
- Assist with gowning and gloving, opening of packs/instruments/sundries and pour lotions.
- Assist in the safe transfer and positioning of patients between the anaesthetic room/theatre/recovery
- Perform the duties of a circulating assistant.
- Clear and clean theatre and equipment between cases
- Maintain stock levels in theatres and carry out stores management
- Maintain stocks of linen/theatre clothing
- Perform some domestic/housekeeping duties
- Contribute to the implementation of competencies, policies and procedures of the unit
- Following orientation & training act as supervisor to learner support workers and as support to other inexperienced theatre staf

For full details of the responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description.