Company Overview
Optegra has an exciting opportunity for a Rapid Response Scrub Practitioner to join our highly skilled and dedicated regional clinical team. This full‑time, permanent position supports four hospitals across the region: Birmingham, Uttoxeter, Nottingham, and Leicester. The role requires a high level of flexibility and responsiveness, with travel required at very short notice, either the evening before or on the morning of your shift. As part of the Rapid Response Team, you will not be allocated to a fixed rota. Instead, you will provide vital support across the region, helping teams manage staffing shortages and maintain exceptional patient care standards where support is needed most. In return for your flexibility and commitment, Optegra will award a highly competitive salary and benefits package; reimbursement of travel expenses; access to Optegra’s fully funded training and development programmes; the opportunity to work alongside exceptional clinical teams across multiple sites and a dynamic, exciting and rewarding role where no two days are the same. This is an excellent opportunity for an adaptable and motivated practitioner looking to broaden their experience within a support and forward‑thinking business organisation.
Benefits
- Generous salary (£48,645 FTE plus travel expenses) reviewed annually
- Generous matched pension contributions
- 33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Flexible working and SMART working schemes – work life balance
- Funded training and development – our people
- Celebrating anniversaries – value loyalty and commitment
- Annual STAR awards
- Blue Light Card – discounts online and on the high street
- Free laser eye treatment for you and 20% discount for friends and family
- Private Healthcare, 24/7 GP appointments, free physio and counselling for wellbeing
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
The Role
As part of a multi‑disciplinary team, and in alignment with Optegra values, you will ensure a comprehensive level of care provision to all ophthalmic patients, their relatives or carers, across clinical and non‑clinical care pathways, with an emphasis on quality patient care across all hospitals within the region. You will provide excellent care to all patients, with specific responsibility for skilled clinical and technical assistance as a member of the operating theatre team, and may also include peri‑operative and post‑operative care in the surgical and refractive suite of the hospital, assisting with surgical procedures. You will ensure a comprehensive level of care, updating patients regularly, and will deliver highly skilled patient‑centered care. You will assist in maintaining an ‘out of hours’ emergency patient service for quality standards and continuity of care. You will adhere to principles of clinical governance and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide the most efficient and effective level of service.
Key Responsibilities
- Promote a sensitive, responsive and caring approach to all patients, visitors and colleagues within the hospital environment.
- Deliver high quality, safe and effective patient care throughout the patients’ visit to Optegra.
- Work in a manner that ensures maximum efficiency, effective utilisation of resources and seamless delivery of support to consultants/surgeons.
Requirements
- Registered General Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner.
- Registered Nurse 1st level registration with theatre course or equivalent experience, or ODP Level 3 NVQ in Operating department practice, or ODA City and Guilds 752.
- One year or more ophthalmology surgical theatre experience.
- Computer and IT skills – good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Awareness of responsibilities in relation to NMC Professional Code of Conduct.
- Awareness of role of CQC.
Closing Date
Please submit your application as soon as possible. We may close this vacancy once we have received enough applications.
