Location: Midlands
Availability: Weekend Sessions
Rates: Competitive
Are you a General Scrub Nurse with experience in post-anaesthetic or perioperative care, looking for additional weekend work? Here at 18 Week Support, we have an exciting opportunity to support a well-established NHS Trust in the Midlands area within a busy General Surgery service.
This is an excellent opportunity to work alongside experienced theatre and recovery teams in a well-supported, patient-focused environment while benefiting from flexible additional sessions.
Opportunity Highlights:
- Amazing rates of pay
- Flexibility around your current commitments
- Consistent or ad-hoc work available
- Opportunity to work within a specialist General Surgery environment
Preoperative Duties
- Prepare operating rooms for scheduled surgical procedures.
- Ensure all surgical instruments, equipment, and supplies are available, functional, and sterile.
- Verify patient identity, procedure details, consent forms, and surgical site according to established protocols.
- Participate in surgical safety checklists and team briefings.
- Anticipate equipment and instrument needs based on the planned procedure.
- Strong knowledge of surgical procedures and instrumentation.
- Excellent understanding of sterile technique and aseptic practice.
- Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration.
- Current experience working within a surgical setting for a minimum of 6 months within the last 12 months.
- Proven NHS experience.
- Experience working within surgical wards or theatre environments is desirable.
- Strong clinical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
At 18 Week Support, we are the UK’s leading insourcing provider to the NHS. We partner with trusts nationwide to expand clinical capacity, reduce waiting times, and improve patient access to outpatient and surgical care. Clinical excellence and patient safety are at the heart of everything we do.