Nursing

Theatre Practitioner - Scrub (Bank)

Theatre Practitioner

Taunton | Hospital | Bank | Part Time | Includes weekend workUp to £26.50 hourly depending on experience

Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability.  

Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity. From our innovative healthcare and leisure facilities to our community access programmes, we’re committed to building a healthier nation. Inside our award-winning hospitals, this starts with commitment to quality and the highest standards of patient care. It starts with you.   
 
As a Scrub Practitioner at our hospital, you’ll be focused, detail-oriented empathetic with great communication skills. You’re registered with the appropriate governing body, and you bring the qualifications and experience relevant to your registration, including NMC or HCPC. With post-registration experience in Scrub roles within a Theatre environment, you’re a team player with a passion for exceptional patient care. 

Experience and ability to scrub for ophthalmic surgeries is essential.   

As a Scrub Practitioner, you will:  

• Work in a multi disaplinary team covering a varied patient caseload

• Use state-of-the-art technology, equipment and facilities

• Supervise, support and develop junior members of the team

• Provide high-quality perioperative care in a multidisciplinary team setting

• Create high-quality care and patient experiences that are clinically effective and evidence based

• Have ample opportunities for continuous growth and personal development, which can include Surgical First Assist training.

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. This includes holiday in line with the working time directive, access to our pension scheme and discounted gym membership at £25.00 a month.

Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital
 

Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital is one of the leading providers of private healthcare in the South West. We've built a reputation for clinical excellence and outstanding patient care over the last 40 years. We are constantly investing in our modern hospital. With three new state of the art Ultra Clean Air operating theatres and an endoscopy suite we are proud of the wide range of surgical services and treatments available. The hospital has 41 private en-suite bedrooms split over 2 wards and 11 consulting rooms within our Outpatients Department.

Our areas of specialty include orthopedics and spinal surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology, bariatric treatments and diagnostic imaging. Our most recent CQC inspection was undertaken in July 2016 and we were enormously proud to be rated overall as Good, with Outstanding for Well Led.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you. 

Rewards & Benefits

Helping you be and feel your best.

Annual Leave

25 days + Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days after 5 years and to 30 days after 10 years of service.

Nuffield Health Healthcare Plan

Membership is free for employees and you can add partner and dependants at your own cost.

*eligibility criteria applies.

Financial Wellbeing

A range of employee benefits through a Financial Wellbeing provider – including affordable loans repaid through salary, access to your pay when you need it, simple savings, a government Help to Save scheme and money insights.

Cycle to Work Scheme

Save money, get fit and reduce your carbon footprint by taking advantage of this tax-efficient scheme to get a new bike.

Gym Membership

Free membership to any Nuffield Health gym, plus discounted membe...

Job Reference:

1684

Location:

Homeworking

Hours of Work:

18.5 – 25 hours per week (part-time)

Salary:

£25,221 - £27,780 FTE per annum (pro rata for part-time hours), plus £480 FTE home-based allowance

Contract Type:

Permanent

Closing Date:

15 Feb 2026

ID: 1684 LifeSkills Support Worker

Service: LifeSkills

Salary:
- starting at £25,221 FTE per annum, rising to £27,780 FTE per annum (pro rata for corresponding part-time hours)
- Additionally, £480 home-based allowance FTE per annum

Location: Homebased Role covering a specific geographical location (Birmingham)
Significant travel required within the Birmingham area.

Hours: Part-time (between 18.5 and 25 hours per week)
We offer flexible working arrangements – but regular face to face delivery is required. Please see below for more details.

Contract: Permanent

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Support Worker to join our friendly team and help support the continued work of our LifeSkills Plus team across Birmingham. You will provide intensive support to adults with complex needs who are further away from employment or training by using a strength-based approach, ensuring those accessing the programme receive appropriate practical and emotional support by visiting them at home or in the community.

The LifeSkills programme supports individuals and families to build their confidence, social networks, financial and employability skills. The LifeSkills Support Worker will work closely with the linked LifeSkills programme, entitled LifeSkills Open.

Main Responsibilities:
• Hold a caseload, delivering regular face-to-face support.
• Deliver a range of support and interventions to individuals with complex needs that focus on their strengths, and which enable them to consider options and think differently, helping them to feel more empowered and able to face new challenges
• Support and deliver activities that increase confidence, improve mental health, widen social networks, help with budgeting and enable individuals to seek training, work or volunteering opportunities.

Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• Experience of working in services that deliver positive outcomes for individuals and their families
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to present to a range of audiences and to communicate effectively; and proven ability to develop and sustain relationships with colleagues, partners and stakeholders.
• ability to work collaboratively with individuals to identify their support needs, plan, implement and monitor emotional and practical support.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Children and Adult Workforce, Enhanced with Children’s Barred List

Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

To Apply:
• Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Sunday 15th February at 23:59

For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: claire.berwick@family-action.org.uk

Our commitment to Equa...

DESIRABLE
Recognised Level 3 Early
Years qualification.(A/I)

GCSE Grade C Maths
and English or Functional
Skills level 2

Current paediatric first
aid certificate (A/I)

Food Hygiene Certificate
(A)
Post qualifying
experience  with a
supervisory level of
responsibility.(A/I)

Working knowledge of
the development of
children from birth to 5
years (A/I)

Thanet Early Years Project
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Nursery Practitioner Level 2

ESSENTIAL

QUALIFICATIONS
AND TRAINING

Recognised Early Years qualification –
Level 2  (A/I)

EXPERIENCE

Responsibility for the care of children in a
day nursery or similar setting for a minimum
1 year period  (post qualification). (A/I)

KNOWLEDGE

Experience of working as a key person for
children aged from birth up to 5 years. (A/I)
Sound knowledge  and understanding of:
-  The Early Years Foundation Stage
(EYFS) Safeguarding and Welfare
Requirements (A/I)  GDPR 2018

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the development of children aged  up to
5 years. (A/I)

a child centred approach to the care and
education of all children with a reflective
and flexible attitude to supporting their
needs and further development.(A/I)

-  how to plan for children's individual

needs in line with the requirements of
the EYFS  (A/I)

-  procedures for safeguarding children

(A/I)

-  health and safety issues relevant to a

nursery setting (A/I)

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issues relating to equal opportunities,
inclusion and anti discriminatory
practice. (A/I)

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-  The SEND best practice (A/I)

-  Working in partnership with parents(A/I)

SKILLS &
ABILITIES

Ability to plan, provide and lead appropriate
activities for the children. (A/I)

Ability to reflect on own
& room practice.(A/I)

PERSONAL

To contribute to systems to ensure the safety
and supervision of all children within the
setting at all times. (A/I)

To  role model high quality practice and to
support other staff members.(A/I)

To  maintain records, write accurate reports,
complete children's learning journals and 2
year development checks. (A/I)

To maintain and develop effective
communication with colleagues, children,
parents/carers and others (written and oral)
A/I
Personal commitment to:-

•  achieving the highest standards of

early years practice (A/I)
•  ensuring inclusive and anti

discriminatory practice (A/I)

•  own professional development (A/I)
•  willingness to be flexible re working
hours as required to meet the needs
of the setting(A/I)

•  ability to lift/move nursery

equipment(A/I)

(A/I) –  criteria measured by Application
/ Interview.

Flexible approach
(A/I)

Criminal Justice and Outreach Practitioner - Dependency & Recovery Job 0309

• Job Reference
• Job 0309
• Location
• Chester
• Salary
• £26,940.00 to £30,762.00 - Dependent on experience
• Vacancy Type
• Permanent/Full Time
• Working Hours
• 37.5 hours per week
• Application Deadline
• Sunday, February 15, 2026
• Job Summary
• The Role

  Experience of working within substance misuse and criminal justice knowledge or a related Health and Social Care setting is essential as well as experience of delivering structured treatment groups. You must be committed, resourceful and highly motivated to engage people within treatment services and promote recovery through their daily practice.

  You will be co located within Chester probation offices and our Chester Hub as part of Dependency and Recovery to improve continuity of care upon release from prison to achieve people who use our services recovery journey goals, via 1:1s and structured groupwork, and case manage clients on probation alongside the Probation Practitioners.

  Your duties will include:

  • assessing their needs, delivering effective interventions, completing detailed reports, and working closely with our criminal justice partner agencies, clinical team and other partner agencies.
  • conducting assessments for clients, including Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) and Drugs Rehabilitation Requirements (DRR) assessments.
  • managing a case load and coordinating and delivering assessments and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning and aftercare planning.
  • delivering harm reduction advice, psychosocial interventions, needle & syringe exchanges, Blood borne virus testing and interventions, drug testing and overdose prevention advice.

  An empathetic and non-judgmental approach is imperative, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging issues and behaviours. Good time management and team working skills are essential in this fast-paced service.

  Based within Cheshire West & Chester integrated Drug and Alcohol Service, the Criminal Justice Outreach Practitioner role will support criminal justice service users within the area Contact, assess, refer and support drug and alcohol users in criminal justice settings (including Court, prisons, & probation offices), treatment agencies and other appropriate settings

  To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our

  Benefits Package

  To find out more about our service, visit

  New Beginnings in Cheshire West and Chester.

  Please do not reapply if you have previously applied within the last 12 months.

  For an informal chat about the role, or if you would like to visit the service, please contact

  Toni Bills-IngramviaToni.Bills-ingram@viaorg.uk

  The closing date for applications is

  Sunday 15^thFebruary at midnight.Interviews are likely to take place week commencing 16^thFebruary 2026

  We only accept applications via

  http://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/using our application form, sorry we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visithttp://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

  Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.

  We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.

  Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.

  Please email

  people@viaorg.ukif you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.
• Job Profi...

Job Title:

Young People Support Worker

Job Location:

See Contract

Accountable to:

Line Manager

Hours of Work:

Will include working unsociable hours, to be part of a flexible
rota to include weekends, Bank Holidays and sleepovers.

Job Purpose:

To  provide  support  and  advice  around  accommodation,  basic
life  skills,  welfare  benefits,  health  and  personal  issues:  all
allowing service users to work towards independent living.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

•  Work  as  part  of  a  team  being  responsible  to  your  Line  Manager  for  the  well-being  of

service users.

•  Provide service users with practical assistance, advice, advocacy and support in order
that they might develop their skills and work toward maximising their independence.
•  To hold regular innovative activities by enabling a user led approach to managing the

project.

•  To  be  proactive  in  building  positive  relationship  with  service  users.  To  help  create  a

“User led” project.

•  To work in accordance with the objectives of Alabaré Christian Care Centres, its policy

and procedures at all times.

•  To  be  committed  to  safeguarding children  and  young  people and  vulnerable  adults  in
line with Alabaré, Local Children’s Safeguarding Board and Adult Care guidelines.

Service User/Support:

To  work  with  service  users,  to  carry  out  assessment  using  Outcome  Star  Tool  to
develop their support needs, plans, and risk assessments.
Work as a key worker for individual residents, following an agreed support plan. To
implement and monitor support plans.
To  proactively  work  with  all  service  users  to  ensure  they  are  made  aware  of  and
understand their rights and responsibilities in relation to the scheme.
Work  with  the  service  users  to  develop  practical  skill  development  such  as
budgeting,  shopping,  cooking,  housework,  laundry,  health  and  hygiene  etc.  as
detailed in the support plan.
Assist  with  proactive  prevention  work  with  service  users  who  may be  in  danger of
losing their placement.
To  be  actively  involved  with  statutory  and  voluntary  agencies,  colleges,  day
services, training providers and employers to assist service users as appropriate.
Encourage  and  support  service  users  in  experiencing  social  and  leisure  activities
and in taking part in their local community.
Assist service users in having the opportunity to voice their views and be involved in
the management of service delivery.

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Maintain service user confidentiality within the policies and procedures laid down for
the service.
Ensure  service  users  are  treated  with respect  and  their  dignity  is maintained at  all
times.
To maintain appropriate professional boundaries at all times.

Administration:

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Maintain all necessary records in accordance with service policy.
Maintain  administrative  records  and  chronology  on  Harmonia  (Data  system),
recording appropriate factual information accurately.
Maintain timesheets, expense records and mileage logs in accordance with policies
and procedures.
Ensure confidentiality in relation to all service user documentation.

Finance:

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Assist the service users with their finances in line with their own personal plan and
company policy.

Property and Equipment Maintenance/Health and Safety:

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Work  with  and  support  service users  and  other  staff  team members  to  ensure  the
maintenance  of  a  clean and  safe  environment  for  service users,  staff  and  visitors,
ensuring all appropriate Health and Safety guidelines are adhered to in accordance
with policy.
Assisting service users with cleaning tasks as required.
Report maintenance requests in accordance with service policy.
At  all  times  adhere  to  relevant  legislation,  good  practice  and  policies  and
procedures,  including  Health  and  Safety,  Confidentiality  and  Equal  Opportunities,
Anti –discrimination.  To work at all times to maintain service policies.
After young person has moved on, within 48 hours, ensure room is prepared for any
new arrival.

Personal:

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individual  personal  support  and  supervision  sessions,  and

Attend  regular
Appraisals.
Attend regular staff team meetings. Attend relevant external meetings as requested
by your Line Manager.
Be committed to personal development through training, leading to a relevant level
3 or above qualification in line with the Regulated Qualification Network
Attend training, conferences and workshops as required by Line Manager.
Maintain My Learning Cloud ensuring training is up to date and kept up to date.

Other:-

•  To foster the Mission, Vision, Values and Christian ethos of Alabaré in a

responsible and positive way on all occasions.

•  Work towards the outcomes outlined in the Charity’s Strategy for Growth and

Resilience 2025-30.

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