Pre-Operative Assessment Nurse

The Royal Wolverhampton Nhs Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking an experienced nurse to hold responsibility for their own caseload and clinic. The post emphasises autonomous clinical practice, with decision-making independent of other professionals and use of clinical reasoning to assess patients.

You will determine clinical indications, request investigations, interpret results, and refer patients to consultants or specialists.

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Adult Nurse with current UK registration.
• Pre-op experience.
• Desirable: Pre-operative Assessment Course/qualification.

Responsibilities

• Hold responsibility for own caseload and clinic.
• Provide autonomous clinical duties and exercise professional autonomy.
• Assess patients using evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning.
• Independently determine clinical indications and request procedures (e.g., echocardiograms, ECGs, lung function tests, pathology results) and interpret results.
• Refer patients to other health professionals including consultants and specialists as needed.
• Use interpreters and other resources to communicate with patients who have a different language.
• Adhere to clinical guidelines and protocols within area of specialty; be professionally and legally accountable for own work.

Education

NMC Registered Adult Nurse

Pre-op experience

Job description

Job summary

To hold responsibility for own caseload and clinic
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner. Professional autonomy is the term describing the pre-op nurse's ability to make decisions independent of other health care professionals
To act independently and use clinical reasoning skills to assess patients.
To facilitate optimal management of the patient using investigations, clinical reasoning, and evidence-based practice. To determine clinical indication and independently request specific medical procedures eg: echocardiograms, ECG's, lung function tests and blood pathology results, interpret results for patients.
To be responsible for appropriate referral of patients to other health professionals including consultant anaesthetists, diabetic specialists etc
Use appropriate resources (e.g. interpreters) to communicate effectively with patients who have a different first language
To be responsible for adhering to clinical guidelines and protocols within area of speciality in line with evidence-based practice and national guidelines. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Details

Date posted: 27 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Closing date: 06 November 2026

Essential

• NMC Registered Adult Nurse
• Pre-op experience

Desirable

• Pre-operative Assessment Course/qualification

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Matron Samantha Sewell, [e-mail], 01902694639