Lead Scrub Practitioner – Orthopaedics & Spine
Job Title: Lead Scrub Practitioner – Orthopaedics & Spine
Location: The Portland Hospital, London
Salary: Competitive salary, private healthcare insurance for you and your family, vast range of additional rewards and benefits.
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week / Monday to Sunday + on calls requirement.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Lead Scrub Practitioner with a strong background in orthopaedics and spinal surgery to join The Portland Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare UK. This role is ideal for a confident, clinically skilled practitioner who is ready to lead from the front and set the standard in perioperative care within these specialist areas.
As the Lead Scrub Practitioner, you will provide hands‑on clinical leadership, supporting and guiding your team to plan, deliver, and evaluate high‑quality, evidence‑based care for patients undergoing a wide range of orthopaedic and spinal procedures. You will play a key role in ensuring all safety aspects of intraoperative care are upheld, while fostering a culture of excellence, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
You will act as a role model within the scrub team, bringing specialist knowledge in orthopaedics and spine, and supporting colleagues through mentoring, training, and skills assessment. In return, you’ll benefit from HCA Healthcare UK’s strong commitment to professional development, clinical excellence, and an outstanding rewards and benefits package.
The Portland Hospital is the only private hospital in the UK dedicated to the healthcare of women and children. As the UK’s largest private children’s hospital, we offer over 46 paediatric beds, including a 10‑bed paediatric intensive care unit, a neonatal intensive care unit, and a dedicated day‑case unit. We care for more than 40,000 children each year, providing treatment from new-borns through to young adults. As the only fully private maternity hospital in the UK, delivering over 1,600 babies annually, we are committed to providing safe, high‑quality care for women and families.
Our five state‑of‑the‑art theatres offer a vibrant, supportive, and highly professional environment where you can continue to grow your expertise — particularly within orthopaedics and spine — while working alongside some of the UK’s most respected clinicians.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Work professionally with others of the multidisciplinary team, including with consultants
Provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in the appropriate staffing and allocation of scrub duties.
Ensure the cost effective and appropriate use of resources with consideration and due regard to budgetary control.
Motivate members of staff, achieve high morale and promote effective communication with the department.
Skills and Experience:
Experience in Orthopaedic and Spinal
Substantial post-graduate experience in Theatres in a senior role
Recent paediatric caseload experience is desirable
Operating Department Practitioner/Registered Nurse qualified
Current HCPC/NMC Registration
Why HCA UK?
Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers. In the UK, we’re one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing.
By caring for our employees, we empower them to provide exceptional care for our patients. That’s why we offer a host of flexible benefits that reflect the invaluable contribution they make every day. As a Lead Theatre Practitioner in Scrubs you’ll be eligible for:
25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you.
Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals.
Private pension contribution which increases with length of service.
Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme.
Group Life Assurance from day one.
Critical illness cover.
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay.
Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland.
Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you.
Discounts with over 800 major retailers.
Culture and values
At HCA UK we believe exceptional care starts with our people. We celebrate the unique perspectives and different experiences each of us bring as we know that when you feel seen, heard and supported you can be at your best for our patients, and each other.
Our mission is simple, above all else we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life, a clear statement that extends to both our patients and colleagues. To achieve this, we live and breathe four core values:
Unique and Individual: We recognise and value everyone as unique and individual
Kindness and compassion: We treat people with kindness and compassion
Honesty, integrity and fairness: - We act with absolute honesty, integrity and fairness
Loyalty, respect and dignity: We trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family with loyalty, respect and dignity
Reasonable adjustments
We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their full self to work and be afforded the same opportunities. As a Disability Confident committed organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to suit your needs as well as offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, and in the workplace, to anyone that needs them.
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