Are you an experienced Theatre Practitioner ready to take the next step in your career? Do you have the clinical expertise, leadership skills and passion for delivering exceptional patient care?
At the Healthcare Management Trust (HMT), we are looking for a motivated and skilled Senior Theatre Practitioner to join our theatre team. This is an exciting opportunity to provide visible clinical leadership, support the development of colleagues and help deliver safe, compassionate and high-quality perioperative care.
If you are passionate about clinical excellence, enjoy supporting others to reach their potential and want to play an active role in improving patient outcomes, we would love to hear from you.
What you’ll be doing
As Senior Theatre Practitioner, you will play a key leadership role in the day-to-day running of the theatre department, helping to ensure the safe, effective and efficient delivery of high-quality patient care.
Working across your specialist area of practice, you will act as a clinical role model, supporting colleagues, promoting best practice and maintaining the highest professional standards. You will work closely with the Theatre Manager, surgeons, anaesthetic teams, recovery practitioners and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure excellent patient experiences and outcomes.
The Senior Theatre Practitioner plays a key leadership role within the theatre department, overseeing the day-to-day delivery of safe, high-quality patient care. They will lead and support the theatre team, acting as a clinical role model and maintaining accountability for their own professional practice.
Working across anaesthetics, recovery and/or scrub specialties, the post holder will contribute to departmental objectives through staff development, process improvement, and service delivery initiatives. They will provide visible clinical leadership, support the Theatre Manager, and help drive continuous improvement in patient experience, safety, and operational performance.
At HMT, we take pride in delivering exceptional healthcare through our two private hospitals: St Hugh's Hospital in Grimsby and Sancta Maria Hospital in Swansea. Both hospitals are dedicated to providing expert, patient-centred care in a welcoming and compassionate environment.
St Hughs Hospital offers treatment across all major medical specialties and care at every step of the process, from initial consultations, assessments and diagnostic tests to treatment, rehabilitations and post-operative care.
HMT St Hughs, along with their sister hospital HMT Sancta Maria in Swansea, has a mission to provide safe, high quality care in order to improve the health, wellbeing and independence of their patients. Part of the Healthcare Management Trust, HMT St Hugh's is a non-profit organisation using their surpluses to fund medical research, educational grants and dementia charities
Whether you’re working in one of our care homes, hospitals, or as part of our Shared Support Services team, you’ll find an environment that values teamwork and personal growth.
You’ll work alongside other passionate professionals who are committed to providing the best care. We foster a collaborative and supportive approach to learning that helps everyone succeed.
You will have the opportunity to contribute to service development, staff education and continuous improvement, helping to create a positive environment where colleagues feel supported and patients receive outstanding care.
At the Healthcare Management Trust, we are driven by our vision to be the most innovative and best-quality provider of niche health and social care services.
Our purpose is to make every contact count, ensuring every resident and patient receives the best possible experience and outcome.
We put our patients, residents and people at the heart of everything we do. We believe in collaboration, compassionate care and always doing the right thing. We are outward-looking, embrace innovation and are bold in our ambition to make things better.
We want our people to bring their authentic selves to work, take pride in what they do and find joy in being part of a supportive, dedicated team.
Our values guide everything we do. We are:
- Caring – putting people first and treating everyone with compassion and respect.
- Enterprising – embracing new ideas and finding better ways to deliver care.
- Resourceful – making the best use of our skills, knowledge and resources.
- Authentic – being genuine, open and true to ourselves.
- Accountable – taking responsibility for our actions and the quality of our work.
You will be an experienced and confident theatre professional who combines excellent clinical skills with a supportive leadership style. You will be committed to developing others, working collaboratively and delivering consistently high standards of patient care.
Essential knowledge, skills and experience
- Current registration with the relevant professional body, such as the NMC or HCPC, with a relevant healthcare qualification and post-registration development.
- Educated to diploma or degree level, or equivalent.
- Demonstrable experience in a theatre leadership or senior clinical role.
- Proven ability to scrub across a range of surgical specialties and levels of complexity, including relevant experience in orthopaedics, ophthalmology, gynaecology, urology, spinal, plastics, general surgery, minor vascular and ENT.
- Ability to teach, support and assess others in the technical aspects of the scrub role.
- Experience working effectively with clinicians and colleagues at different levels of seniority.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- The ability to motivate colleagues, encourage effective teamwork and contribute to a positive working culture.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise workload and respond effectively to changing demands.
- Confidence in using initiative and making appropriate decisions within your scope of practice.
- A clear understanding of confidentiality, safeguarding and the importance of handling sensitive information appropriately.
- Evidence of recent professional development and a commitment to reflective practice.
Desirable knowledge, skills and qualifications
- A postgraduate qualification in perioperative practice.
- A Surgical First Assistant qualification.
- A teaching or mentoring qualification, or relevant experience.
- Advanced Life Support or Intermediate Life Support training, as appropriate to the role.
- Evidence of completed scrub competencies for relevant surgical procedures.
- Experience of clinical audit, quality improvement and service development.
Why join HMT?
At HMT, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to patient care while developing your leadership skills and supporting the growth of your colleagues.
You will be part of a team that values collaboration, professional development and continuous improvement, where your knowledge, ideas and experience can help shape the delivery of our services.
Most importantly, you will be joining an organisation that believes every patient deserves the best possible experience and outcome, and that every member of the team has a role to play in making that happen.
Ready to make every contact count?
If you are passionate about perioperative excellence, committed to compassionate patient care and ready to make a positive impact as a senior member of our theatre team, we would love to hear from you.
Join the Healthcare Management Trust and help us deliver exceptional care, every day.
