Pre Assessment Nurse

Bolton Nhs Foundation Trust; Bolton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated Pre-Operative Assessment Nurse to join our surgical services team. You will assess patients scheduled for elective surgery, identify risks, coordinate investigations, and support patients through their surgical journey.

You will liaise with anaesthetists, surgeons, theatre teams, and other professionals, maintaining accurate records and ensuring adherence to national guidelines and Trust policies to deliver safe, high-quality care.

Qualifications

• Conduct comprehensive pre-operative assessments for patients undergoing elective procedures.
• Obtain and review medical histories, medications, and clinical investigations.
• Identify and elevate potential risks that may impact surgical suitability.
• Request and interpret investigations in line with local protocols.
• Provide patients with information and education regarding their surgical pathway.
• Liaise effectively with anaesthetists, surgeons, theatre teams, and other healthcare professionals.
• Maintain accurate patient records and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with national guidelines, Trust policies, and patient safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive pre-operative assessments for patients undergoing elective procedures.
• Obtain and review medical histories, medications, and clinical investigations.
• Identify and elevate potential risks that may impact surgical suitability.
• Request and interpret investigations in line with local protocols.
• Provide patients with information and education regarding their surgical pathway.
• Liaise effectively with anaesthetists, surgeons, theatre teams, and other healthcare professionals.
• Maintain accurate patient records and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with national guidelines, Trust policies, and patient safety standards.

Job description

We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Pre-Operative Assessment Nurse to join our dedicated surgical services team. You will play a vital role in ensuring patients are clinically prepared for surgery through comprehensive assessments, patient education, and collaborative multidisciplinary working.

The successful candidate will be responsible for assessing patients undergoing elective surgery, identifying potential risks, coordinating investigations, and supporting patients throughout their surgical journey to ensure safe and effective care.

The Trust appreciates and values the contribution international nurses bring to the NHS. We also understand the support overseas nurses need to gain full registration once in the UK (via OSCE) and therefore we only recruit internationally to fill nursing vacancies when we can ensure support is in place. At this present time we aren't in a position to offer that support and therefore will not accept applications from overseas nurses who only have Part 1 NMC registration. If that position changes in future we will clearly advertise our opportunities for international nurses to join our nurse team here in Bolton. Thank you for your understanding.

• Conduct comprehensive pre-operative assessments for patients undergoing elective procedures.
• Obtain and review medical histories, medications, and clinical investigations.
• Identify and elevate potential risks that may impact surgical suitability.
• Request and interpret investigations in line with local protocols.
• Provide patients with information and education regarding their surgical pathway.
• Liaise effectively with anaesthetists, surgeons, theatre teams, and other healthcare professionals.
• Maintain accurate patient records and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with national guidelines, Trust policies, and patient safety standards.

We have a long and proud history of caring for generations of local people and can trace our roots all the way back to 1814 with the first hospital in Bolton - the Bolton Dispensary in the town centre.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2008 and, in 2011, we became an integrated provider with community health services joining the trust. Covering a catchment area that also incorporates parts of Bury, Wigan and Salford, we deliver hospital and community based services from the Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth and from 20 health centres across Bolton, to a catchment population of 310,000+ people.

The Royal Bolton Hospital is a major hub within Greater Manchester for women's and children's services and is the busiest single ambulance-receiving site in Greater Manchester. We're structured in four clinical divisions - Community Services, Families and Diagnostics, Medicine, and Surgery and are led by a Board of Directors. As an NHS Foundation Trust we're accountable to our members and have a Council of Governors to represent the views of patients, public, staff and partners.

Buildings, names and models of care have changed over the centuries, but one thing has remained constant and is prevalent among our 6,718 staff members: the enduring commitment to providing the best health and care for the people of Bolton.