Volunteer Operating Room Nurse | OSCAR
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Volunteer Operating Room Nurse

Mercy Ships UK

  • Posted 17 Apr 2026
  • Location Ghana, Madagascar
  • Location Type Location-based
  • Finance Voluntary
  • Job Type Less than 3 months

What you will contribute

Document nursing care

Assist in setting up and performing in surgical procedures

Providing a surgically clean environment for patient care

Circulate, scrub, assist if needed for different specialties and surgical procedures

Maintain a safe environment for the patient

For This Role, You Will Need

Current, active license as a Registered Nurse (or International Equivalent) with the ability to both scrub and circulate is required

Recent Operating Room experience of at least two years full time (or three years part-time) within the past 5 years, and at the point of application can show working in an OR setting within the past 12 months

Requirements for Operating Room Nurses who do not have scrubbing experience:

– Acquire 6 months scrubbing experience with minimum 150 scrubbed cases

– Should gain this experience within any of the surgical specialties listed: general, reconstructive plastic, gynaecology, maxillofacial/ ENT or orthopaedics (if possible)

Current Basic Life Support certification is required; Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Paediatric Advanced Life Support are optional

Written and verbal fluency in English

Knowledge of Operating Room procedures, standards and equipment

Flexibility and sensitivity to language and cultural diversity

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Please mention OSCAR when responding to this opportunity.

Mercy Ships UK

Mercy Ships UK

Operating the world's largest charity-run hospital ship, Mercy Ships offers the opportunity to bring hope and healing to the world's forgotten poor. We need your skills, whether you're an engineer, cook, nurse, teacher, deck officer, surgeon or cleaner!

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.mercyships.org.uk

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