Nurse Practitioner, Pre Assessment

Integrated Care System; Kidderminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is looking for a Nurse Practitioner to join the Pre-operative Assessment team. The role involves conducting assessments, managing care, and collaborating with various healthcare professionals. Candidates must have nursing qualifications and relevant clinical experience. This position offers opportunities for development in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

DBS checks covered

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience at Band 5 within the specialty or related field.
• Extensive pre-op assessment knowledge or experience.
• Willing to travel between sites countywide as required.

Responsibilities

• Conducting holistic clinical assessments of all patients awaiting surgery.
• Managing the unit in absence of senior staff.
• Ensuring effective communication with patients and the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Phlebotomy skills

ECG skills

Clinical assessment

Patient triage

Education

RGN with current registration

First level degree or equivalent

NMC recognised teaching qualification

Job description

Go back Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Nurse Practitioner, Pre Assessment

The closing date is 15 August 2025

Would you like the opportunity tojoin us as a Band6 Pre-Operative Assessment Clinical Nurse Practitioner?

If so, then Worcestershire AcuteHospitals NHS Trust is recruiting talented, committed individuals who share ourvision, values and professional ambition.

We currently have an opportunityto join our Pre-operative Assessment team at TheAlexandra Hospital as a Countywide position, also covering Kidderminster Hospital. As aPre-Operative Assessment Clinical NursePractitioner you will be responsible for seeing patients in Pre-operativeAssessment clinic to undertake investigations relevant to the patientsassessment, supporting your team at all levels and providing cross Countysupport to our Pre-operative assessment department. You will also liaiseclosely with the Anaesthetic team and the wider Surgical MDT.Your rolewill also include triaging patients for appropriate appointments and Nurse inCharge shifts.

Formore information, please contact Linzi Wright via [e-mail] ordirectly via telephone on 07566765852.(please note I am on leave 4-11th August)

Main duties of the job

Our Nurse Practitioner role is part of a wider Pre-Op team.You will be working with Band 3s, 5s, 6s and 7s as well as members of ourCountywide Booking team. You will be rostered a variety of shifts includingclinical work, triage and Nurse in Charge. Ideally you will have completed a healthassessment module to undertake heart and lung examination to support our morecomplex patients. You should hold phlebotomy and ECG skills to support the teamwhere needed.

The role itself is evolving to encompass changes within PreOp at a National level. This may include pre-screening, diabetes management andworking alongside the anaesthetic team. You will be willing to embrace changeand help shape practice within the department.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a largeacute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acuteservices to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to alarger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services fromthree sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and ourcaring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centredcare. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people towork with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin oureveryday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewiseaccreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible workingwithin our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring aDBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in SupportingInformation section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

Toensure the maintenance of high quality patient focused care at all times,through effective leadership of staff and managed resources.

Towork according to the NMC Code of Professional Standards of Practice andBehaviour for Nurses, relevant professional guidelines and frameworks,including the 6 Cs and upholding the Trusts 4ward Behaviours.

Asa named nurse / key worker for a defined group of patients, workingautonomously, to take responsibility for:

Theprovision of accurate pre-operative patient information.

Ensuringthat all necessary follow up and discharge preparations are in place prior toadmission.

Conductingholistic clinical assessments of all patients awaiting surgery, makingappropriate onward referrals in a timely fashion.

Providinghealth promotion, making every contact count.

Managingthe unit in the absence of the Band 6 Junior Sister and the Band 7.

Ensuringthat own skills are developed and shared with team as appropriate.

Ensuringeffective communication with patients, relatives, carers and themultidisciplinary team.

Participationin preceptorship programmes as appropriate and act as a facilitator / mentor /preceptor / role model to other members of the team.

Providingsupervision, support and education to unqualified staff, students and new staffteam members.

Liaisingwith Consultants and their teams in the event of surgical cancellations.

Workingalongside the Clinical Anaesthetic Lead and anaesthetic team.

KeyDuties:

PatientCare Responsibilities

Actingas a Named Nurse/Case manager to a cohort of patients from POA to admission.

Responsiblefor assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care withinthe framework of team nursing.

Evaluationof patient health history and identifies previously unknown health concerns.

Ableto undertake advanced clinical health assessment including cardiac andrespiratory assessment and examination.

Independentlymake onward referrals to an additional service as appropriate e.g. GeneralPractitioner, Specialist Nurse.

Followup advice, referral, investigations for patients presenting with significant comorbidities.

Actsas a resource and provides advice on the management of patients to staff atBand 5.

Toco-ordinate the patients discharge arrangements in accordance with WAHTdischarge policy.

Topromote a patient-focused approach to care in collaboration with all relevanthealth professionals.

Toobtain an accurate and concise medical and medicines histories from the patientusing interpersonal skills to facilitate the assessment of the patient for bothminor and major surgery.

Usesinformation obtained during the assessment, to determine the patients fitnessto proceed for surgery, demonstrating the appropriate action to take in theevent of not fit to proceed.

Ensurethe patient has an understanding of their proposed operation by providingaccurate peri-operative information both verbally and in writing.

Provideinformation that will enable the patient to make choices about adopting ahealthier lifestyle and makes a referral, as appropriate, for optimisation oftheir health before surgery.

Arrangesand co-ordinates any assessment and/or investigations needed near the time ofsurgery, in accordance with local and national guidance.

Identifiesabnormal readings and acts on the findings in an appropriate and timely manner.

Toassist in establishing and monitoring of protocols and care pathways.

Toensure effective communication with patients, relatives and other staff.

Tosupport peoples equality, diversity and rights at all times.

Tosafe guard vulnerable adults in accordance with agreed policies and procedures.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience at Band 5 within the speciality or related field.
• Extensive Pre-op Assessment knowledge/experience within sub specilaties
• Clinical audit knowledge/experience

Skills/Knowledge

• Able to undertake expanded roles e.g. nurse led clinics
• Able to challenge and articulate opinion
• A working knowledge of health and safety issues
• Ability to demonstrate a knowledge of current legislative changes affecting the NHS
• Clear understanding and experience in operational agenda
• Evidence of teaching and development skills.
• Evidence of managing Change Organisation skills, Leadership skills and ability to inspire and motivate others.
• Able to produce written reports and articulate concerns regarding patient care / safety issues.
• Fully aware of the principles of clinical governance and the application of clinical governance.
• Able to demonstrate understanding/involvement with health promotion/ education initiatves.
• Demonstrate ability to undertake clinical procedures requiring accuracy and dexterity

Other Job requirements

• Willing to travel between sites Countywide as required
• Able to work outside normal office hours/shifts on occasion as required

Qualifications

• RGN with current registration
• First level degree or equivalent
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Related post basic training/experience in Assessment of patients Pre-operatively
• Post basic training in Holistic Assessment
• Competent examiner of heart and lungs
• NMC recognised teaching and assessing qualification.
• ECG competency
• Venepuncture
• Nurse Prescriber or willing to undertake the course

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust