Senior Theatre Anaesthetic and Recovery Practitioner
Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital | Theatres | Permanent | Full time | Includes weekend work
Competitive salary dependent on experience
37.5 hours per week
As the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity, we offer a fantastic home for your career. And we’ll give you the freedom to work autonomously, making full use of your expertise. Here’s where you bring your drive, passion and high standards to help shape the health of the nation.
The Senior Theatre Practitioner in Anaesthetic & Recovery will provide expert clinical support within anaesthetic and recovery services, ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality perioperative care. The post holder will act as a senior clinician, supporting theatre teams, leading by example, and contributing to the delivery of efficient theatre services.
The role requires strong clinical competence, leadership skills, and a commitment to patient safety, governance, and staff development. You have the qualifications and experience that are relevant to your registration, including NMC or HCPC. Plus, you bring post-registration experience, flexibility and excellent communication skills. You’re also a great team worker.
Clinical Practice (Anaesthetic & Recovery)
Provide senior support during anaesthetic preparation and in Recovery
Deliver high-quality recovery care including airway management, monitoring, and escalation of deteriorating patients
Ensure safe patient positioning, transfer, and handover processes
Support adherence to WHO/NatSSIPs safety standards and local theatre policies
Leadership & Team Support
Act as a clinical role model within anaesthetic and recovery teams
Support, supervise, and mentor junior staff and learners
Promote a positive learning environment and reflective practice
Assist in daily coordination of theatre activity where required
Patient Safety & Governance
Ensure compliance with infection prevention and control standards
Maintain accurate, timely, and complete clinical documentation
Participate in incident reporting, investigations, and learning reviews
Support audit and quality improvement initiatives
Ensure adherence to NEWS2 and escalation protocols
Education & Development
Support mandatory training compliance across the team
Assist with competency sign-off and clinical assessments
Contribute to training delivery within anaesthetic and recovery areas
Encourage continuous professional development within the team
Work effectively with anaesthetists, surgeons, ODPs, nurses, and wider MDT
Maintain clear communication during perioperative care pathways
Support theatre flow, scheduling, and efficient use of resources
Escalate risks, concerns, and operational issues appropriately
Support achievement of theatre efficiency and utilisation targets
Contribute to service improvement initiatives
Promote best practice and evidence-based care
Support reduction of cancellations and delays where possible
Personal Attributes
Strong clinical judgement and decision-making skills
Calm under pressure in emergency situations
Team-focused and supportive leadership style
Commitment to patient safety and high standards of care
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve 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 what’s important to you.
Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital
Our state-of-the-art hospital, is central Cambridge’s 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, ENT, General surgery 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.
Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.
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It starts with you.
Welcome to Nuffield Health, the UK’s leading not-for-profit healthcare organisation*.
As a not-for-profit with no shareholders, we invest all our income back into our family of award-winning 37 hospitals, 114 fitness and wellbeing clubs, healthcare clinics, over 200 workplace wellbeing services, as well as developing flagship collaborations supporting our communities – all to realise our vision to build a healthier nation.
What makes us unique is our unrivalled award winning and industry leading network of health and wellbeing services. Only Nuffield Health has the wide-ranging expertise to provide connected care. We attract some of the best people in their specialist fields, who take a personalised approach so we can provide the best possible care and support now and in the future – wherever they are on their journey. All for the public benefit. So, it’s no surprise that we’re trusted by the NHS, Private Medical Insurers, employers and the general public to provide exceptional health and wellbeing services to the nation.
We’re committed to our vision of building a healthier nation.
Welcome to Nuffield Health. Specialists in you.
* Nuffield Health is a Registered Charity. Our objective is to advance, promote and maintain health and healthcare of all descriptions and to prevent, relieve and cure sickness and ill health of any kind, all for the public benefit. Registered Charity Numbers 205533 (England and Wales) and SC041793 (Scotland).
