Perioperative Career and Recruitment Insights

A practical first-week plan for theatre managers: five things to have ready before a new starter arrives, and one action you can take on Monday.

What the 450 hour recency rule means, how a gap looks to a hiring manager, and the words to use when you return to theatre nursing after a career break.

Every theatre staff room has a kettle and an opinion. Tea or coffee at the break? Pick your side and tell us what else is on the table.

The team at Carejobz Perioperative Specialists are recruiting for a day surgery in Melbourne. We are looking for an experienced Associate Nurse Unit Manager to lead floor coordination and clinical escalation across Anaesthetics and PACU.

The team at Carejobz Perioperative Specialists are recruiting for a theatre team in Victoria. We need an ophthalmic scrub scout nurse ready to lead.

The team at Carejobz Perioperative Specialists are recruiting for a theatre team in Tasmania. This role needs Vitreo-Retinal scrub scout experience.

Mary Lambie directed New Zealand nursing from 1931 to 1950. She took training out of the wards, built the first postgraduate courses for registered nurses, and set the system every New Zealand theatre nurse still trains and registers inside.

Carejobz is recruiting a Palliative Care Nurse (Registered Nurse) for our client in Auckland. Palliative care experience is desirable but not essential.

Three live Scrub Scout Nurse roles in three states, three very different pay ranges. What they show, what they leave out, and the questions to ask before you move.

Clogs or runners for theatre? One health service procedure sets what theatre footwear must do. Pick your side and tell us why.

A nurse returning to theatre after time away can bring real experience back to your team. One check belongs before the offer: recency of practice.

Where your notice period comes from, how to hand over your lists and the words to use, so you leave on good terms and keep your references.

The team at Carejobz Perioperative Specialists are recruiting for a hospital in Warragul. This role suits an experienced perioperative nurse ready to take on operational and clinical leadership across Theatre, Day Surgery, Anaesthetics and PACU/Recovery.

We get this question a lot from NZ-trained Anaesthetic Technicians looking at a move to Australia. The short answer: the AT role exists here, but it works very differently to New Zealand, and the gap catches people out.

Two live Scrub Scout Nurse adverts, two very wide pay ranges. What a theatre nurse job description tells you, and the questions to ask before you apply.

Suction, monitor tones, diathermy, the door. An Australian study measured the noise of common theatre instruments. Which sound follows you home?

Five interview questions for theatre managers that show how someone works in a team.

A short habit with published guidance behind it: introduce every team member by name and role at the briefing and the time out.