Registered Scrub Practitioner - Trauma Theatres | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Scrub Practitioner to join our Trauma Theatre team at Colchester Hospital.

This role focuses on the delivery of high-quality trauma and emergency surgery within a busy and fast-paced environment. You will work primarily within Trauma Theatres, supporting the safe and effective management of urgent and emergency cases.

As part of the theatre team, you will contribute to the day-to-day running of trauma lists, ensuring appropriate preparation of theatres, equipment, and instrumentation, and supporting safe and efficient patient flow throughout the operating pathway. You will work closely with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team to maintain high standards of patient care.

To join our team, you will need to be a motivated, confident, and adaptable practitioner with experience in the operating theatre environment. Applicants must hold current NMC or HCPC registration. The ability to scrub competently across a range of procedures would be desirable.

We are committed to supporting your development and will provide a supportive learning environment to help you build your skills within trauma and emergency surgery. While your primary base will be Trauma Theatres, you may be required to support other areas of the department in line with service needs

• Prepare the operating theatre for the operating session to include• the safety checking and preparation of instruments, mechanical and electrical equipment and environmental factors
• perform circulating / scrubbed roles to the level of the grade in the appropriate speciality
• Ensure adherence to Trust/local policies, guidelines and other legislation and support National and local initiatives e.g. Saving Lives, WHO Surgical Safety Check List, GIRFT
• Take part in internal rotation through all areas of the department as required to meet the needs of the service on 24hour basis including trauma

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where 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.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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

This advert closes on Sunday 31 May 2026