Nurse Team Leader - Pre-operative Assessment

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Stevenage seeks a Nurse Team Leader for their Pre-operative Assessment service. The role involves conducting nurse-led clinics, managing caseloads, and supporting a patient-centered approach to ensure care. Candidates must be registered nurses with significant experience and leadership qualities. The position offers opportunities for professional development and emphasizes teamwork and communication.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant post registration experience in relevant areas.
• Evidence of working on your own initiative.
• Experience in audit and research skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct Nurse-led clinics and manage patient caseload.
• Support and develop the POA service and team.
• Act as a role model and mentor to student nurses.

Skills

Leadership

Effective communication

Customer care

Teaching and supervision

Education

Registered Adult Nurse

NMC approved mentoring qualification

Degree or working towards

Leadership or Management Qualification

Job description

Go back East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Nurse Team Leader - Pre-operative Assessment

The closing date is 13 November 2025

We are recruiting two maternity leave cover Nurse Team Leaders into our Pre-operative Assessment service, who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The role of a Preoperative Assessment practitioner is that of an advocate who identifies the patients' needs and risk factors that may affect their surgical experience.

We are dedicated to the reduction of cancelled operations on the day of surgery through ensuring that patients are comprehensively optimised prior to their surgical procedure.

We focus on improving the patient's experience before, during and after their admission by meeting their individual needs.

The assessment, identification and subsequent management of risks related to surgery can also be directly related to the reduction of complication rates and mortality.

Our service operates Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 18:00, and on Saturdays at Lister Hospital from 08:00 to 13:00.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

This exciting opportunity will see you making a real difference in our patients' lives and the standard of quality healthcare delivered.

The successful candidate must be a conscientious individual, preferably with good POA experience but not essential as full training will be given.

You will join and be part of a progressive, innovative team that keeps the patient at the heart of everything we do.

After your POA training and induction, you will conduct Nurse-led clinics and autonomously manage your patient caseload. Therefore, you should have a flexible approach to working and a willingness to learn and develop continuously.

In addition, strong customer care skills and effective communication with all stakeholders are fundamental.

You will act as a role model and demonstrate a desire and willingness to contribute and actively be involved in further developing the POA service as well as the team, student nurses and ODPs who join us on clinical placements.

In return, you will be working within a committed team of hardworking nurses with a high level of professionalism to holistically assess the individual care needs of patients to ensure they are managed safely and effectively throughout their surgical pathway.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Previous Experience

• Significant post registration experience in relevant area(s) of practice
• Evidence of working on own initiative
• Experience of strong leadership and coaching skills
• Experience of audit and research skills
• Experience and knowledge of budget management
• Experience in teaching and supervision
• Experience of recruitment and selection
• Experience of managing staff related personnel issues.

Qualifications / Training

• Registered Adult Nurse on part 1 or part 12 of the NMC register.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning
• Ability to produce professional portfolio
• Hold an NMC approved mentoring qualification
• Degree or working towards
• Leadership or Management Qualification or willingness to work towards

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust