Nurse Pre-Op Assessment Clinic

NHS; Leigh; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Leigh is seeking a dedicated Nurse for the Pre-Op Assessment Clinic. The role involves delivering direct patient care, conducting clinical assessments, and ensuring patients are prepared for elective surgeries. Candidates should possess a First Level Registered Nurse qualification and relevant clinical experience. This position offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Evidence of ongoing CPD
• Recent and relevant clinical experience within Pre Op Assessment clinic.

Responsibilities

• Maintain professional accountability and professionalism.
• Deliver high quality assessments and care.
• Provide specialist patient centred care.

Skills

Clinical Skills

Communication

IT Skills

Education

First Level Registered Nurse

Degree Level Education

Tools

HIS

Job description

Go back Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Nurse Pre-Op Assessment Clinic

The closing date is 30 May 2025

We are a busy department with multiple clinics taking place. Pre-Op Assessment involves working with other disciplines and specialities to ensure our patients are getting a smooth Pre-Op journey prior to their Elective surgery.

This post is band 5

This role will deliver direct patient care for patients who are to have Elective Orthopaedic/Surgical procedures. This will be undertaken by demonstrating skills that are specific to preoperative assessment that identifies the patient's fitness for the elective procedures through assessment.

Evidence of qualifications/certificates will be required at interview.

Main duties of the job

To identify through clinical assessment of patients requiring optimisation Pre-Elective surgery.

Through clinical decision making refer patients to appropriate specialities for opinion and/or required investigations.

Work within multi-disciplinary protocols, trust policies and guidelines.

Maintain accurate and detailed documented records of patients journey through the Pre-Operative assessment process .

Keep up to date with current NICE Pre-Op guidelines.

Ensure clinical competencies are current best practice working along side Anaesthetists and Surgeons with effective communication skills.

About us

Choose Well - Choose WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

On-Call

Please note that senior positions (AFC band 8A or above) may be expected to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.

Job responsibilities

• Be responsible to maintain a professional accountability and professionalism
• To maintain self-development through the practice of safe standards, trust policies and guidelines and work within compliance with the NMC Code of Conduct.
• Be responsible for the delivery of a high quality assessments and care, ensuring that clinical care is organised to meet the needs of the individual and ensuring patient safety.
• To provide and deliver specialist patient centred care to all patients attending through the Pre-Operative Assessment processes
• To provide and be able to make autonomous clinical decisions, referring to appropriate clinicians, and other services
• Promote best working practices through participation of audits
• Uphold good communication skills both verbally and through concise accurate documentation. Provide clinical supervision for all staff.
• Demonstrate leadership skills in promoting up to date best evidence based clinical practice

Person Specification

Qualifications

• First Level Registered Nurse
• Evidence of recognised education and knowledge of clinical examination based on an assessment of clinical competences.
• Evidence of ongoing CPD
• Evidence of further study for clinical assessment skills.
• Evidence of working towards degree level education

Experience

• Recent and relevant clinical experience within Pre Op Assessment clinic.
• Experience of working independently
• Previous work in surgery
• Evidence of involvement in audit/research
• Able to work autonomously, within broad clinical parameters and manage own workload

Skills

• Demonstration of specialist clinical skills for effective patient management relevant to the service.
• Clinical skills and experience within Pre Op clinic setting
• IT skills (including knowledge of HIS)

Knowledge

• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy relating to specialist area and role.
• Research awareness relevant to speciality and audits
• Understanding of education/student requirements

Additional

• Flexible & positive approach to work
• Able to work across various settings
• Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation

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.

Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£29,970 to £36,483 a yearper annum, pro rata