Theatre Practitioner – Day Surgery | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital has an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic Registered Nurses or Operating Department Practitioners to join our supportive team in Elmstead Day Unit Theatres Department. This position is ideal for individuals who are passionate about their profession and committed to delivering high-quality patient focused care.

At Colchester, our theatre suites comprise of 17 days case and inpatient theatres. Elmstead Theatres accommodate specialities like ENT, Urology, General surgery, plastic, Oral and gynaecological surgeries.

This exciting position offers opportunity for ongoing professional development to practice and advance your theatre knowledge and skills beyond your current boundaries of practice to become a multi-skilled Theatre practitioner. You will also have opportunities to receive in-house continued clinical skills training and interpersonal skills workshops.

• Provide clinically effective, high quality, individualised peri-operative patient care working within the multi-disciplinary team.
• Promote a safe and attractive working environment that encourages learning.
• Contribute to the continuing development of peri-operative and professional practice ensuring practice is evidence based.
• Support the integration of clinical governance into all aspects of patient care delivery.
• Demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to achieve the learning outcomes of departmental programmes and competencies

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 thatTime Mattersto 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 Monday 25 May 2026