Theatre Nurse Jobs in the Free State 

Bloemfontein does the heavy lifting for a very large catchment. The city's academic and private theatres take referrals from across the Free State, parts of the Northern Cape and beyond, which means a broad range of list types in one place and a steady need for scrub and recovery cover. Outside the city, the goldfields around Welkom, the petrochemical belt at Sasolburg and the eastern Free State towns of Bethlehem, Harrismith and Kroonstad all run theatres that feel a single absence immediately. 

Nursing Services of South Africa places scrub, anaesthetic, recovery, floor and CSSD staff across the province, on single shifts, weekend lists and longer block bookings. 

Theatre roles we are placing in the Free State 

• Scrub nurses for general, orthopaedic, gynae, urology, ENT, ophthalmic, maxillofacial and plastics lists 

• Anaesthetic nurses for induction, airway assistance, monitoring and drug checks 

• Recovery and PACU nurses for post-anaesthetic observation, pain management and ward handover 

• Floor and circulating nurses for counts, stock, positioning, specimens and runner work 

• CSSD and sterile services staff for decontamination, packing, autoclave and tray assembly 

• Day surgery and endoscopy nurses, with shorter lists and more predictable hours 

• Theatre unit managers and shift leaders for units short on senior cover 

Bloemfontein is a good province in which to widen your scrub experience, because the referral volumes bring specialities through the city that smaller centres rarely see. 

Where we are placing theatre staff in the Free State 

Bloemfontein, Welkom, Sasolburg, Bethlehem, Kroonstad and Harrismith. 

We also staff rural and district hospitals, mine health services in the goldfields, occupational health clinics, frail care and step-down units, correctional facilities and private home-based patients across the province. If your town is not listed, send it to us anyway, our client list moves weekly. 

Related local pages: surgical nurse jobs in Bloemfontein and registered nurse jobs in the Free State. 

Why theatre nurses and locums register with us 

Registering with NSSA is free. No registration fee, no placement fee, no deduction from your rate. Our clients pay us, so you never do. 

We are proud members of AHASA, the Allied Healthcare Association of South Africa, and we have signed its Code of Ethics Pledge. That means an honest description of the unit and the list before you accept a shift, and correct pay for every hour you work. 

You also get: 

• Shifts chosen by you in the Staffshift app, with your availability set your way 

• Weekly pay straight into your bank account 

• Block bookings in the smaller centres if you prefer steady runs of work 

• A compliance team on WhatsApp when something needs sorting 

Locum doctors in the Free State 

We place HPCSA-registered locum doctors alongside our theatre teams: anaesthetists and anaesthetic medical officers, general and orthopaedic surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, obstetricians and gynaecologists, physicians for general medicine wards and HDUs, and paediatricians for children's and neonatal units.  

What you need to register 

A South African ID or passport with a valid work permit, your SANC number and current annual practising certificate, police clearance, proof of Hepatitis B and COVID-19 vaccination, your training certificates, proof of address, bank details, a SARS PAYE confirmation letter and two references. 

Start working in Free State theatres 

Register to work with NSSA. It is free, it takes one sitting, and our compliance team will guide you through the documents. 

For help with registration, WhatsApp our compliance team on 060 070 29 91 or chat with us on Staffshift. You can also browse current vacancies or read more about theatre careers in South Africa.