Pre-Operative Assessment Nurse **Pending AFC evaluation**

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking a pre-operative nurse to hold an autonomous caseload and clinic, performing clinical duties with professional autonomy and the ability to make decisions independently.

You will use clinical reasoning to assess patients and facilitate optimal management, including ordering investigations and interpreting results, with referrals to other specialists when appropriate.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

• 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.

• 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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Samantha Sewell Job title: Matron Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01902694639