Senior Theatre Practitioner – Scrub (SFA Qualified)

Cambridge Hospital | Nursing | Permanent Contract | Full Time Competitive salary, dependent on experience

37.5 hours per week

Applications are restricted to candidates who hold SFA certification

Nuffield Health is Britains largest healthcare charity, and we are committed to delivering outstanding clinical care. We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Scrub Theatre Practitioner to provide clinical leadership within our Theatre Department at Cambridge Hospital.

This is a senior role requiring advanced clinical expertise, strong leadership capability, and the ability to influence service development, standards of practice, and team performance while delivering excellent perioperative care.

The Role

As a Senior Scrub Theatre Practitioner, you will act as a senior clinical resource within the Operating Theatre, leading by example and supporting the safe, efficient, and effective delivery of surgical services.

Key responsibilities include:

Providing advanced clinical and technical expertise as a Senior Scrub Practitioner, scrubbing and assisting across a broad range of surgical specialties

Acting as a Surgical First Assistant (SFA) where required, in line with accreditation

Providing day-to-day clinical leadership within theatres, supporting junior staff and maintaining high professional standards

Supporting theatre efficiency, including workforce planning, labour management, and cost control against KPIs

Working closely with Consultants to optimise theatre utilisation and patient flow

Actively contributing to Clinical Governance, risk management, and audit activity

Supporting staff performance management, development, and competency assessment

Promoting best practice, service improvement, and a culture of continuous quality improvement

About You

You will have:

Registration with NMC or HCPC

Accreditation as a Surgical First Assistant (SFA) Level 1 or Level 2

A minimum of 2 years experience in a senior theatre role

Proven leadership and team management experience within a theatre environment

Strong communication, decision-making, and influencing skills

The ability to work autonomously while contributing to wider departmental objectives

Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital

Our state-of-the-art hospital, is central Cambridges premium private hospital, boasting an Outstanding CQC score and offer a full range of medical and surgical specialties. With expertise in Cancer care and Cancer surgery, Orthopaedic surgery (including robotic surgery), Neurosurgery, Cardiology as well as specialist Paediatric services.

Backed by the latest diagnostic imaging facilities including wide bore MRI and CT scanning, we offer immediate assessment and expert diagnosis. Hospital facilities include 3 state of the art digital theatres, 32 beds, Surgical Day Case theatre/endoscopy suite, Surgical Day PODs, private consultation rooms, close monitoring units, Chemotherapy suite, on-site registered pharmacy, Diagnostic scanning unit and a Pathology laboratory

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. Thats why weve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of whats important to you.

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