Employer: Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Ashford Hospital
Town: Ashford
Salary: £31,469 - £38,308 per annum inc. HCAS pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/03/2025 23:59
Staff Nurse, Pre-Op Assessments
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
The pre-assessment team at Ashford & St. Peters Hospitals Foundation Trust is recruiting. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our team of experienced Pre-operative assessment nurses.
The role involves face-to-face or telephone assessment prior to patients’ anticipated elective general or orthopaedic surgery to ensure that they are adequately prepared and fit for their operation to proceed safely. You will be working in a nurse-led team liaising closely with our anaesthetic colleagues following local and national guidelines for pre-operative management of both day case and inpatient procedures.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
* Assess pre-operatively elective surgical patients for inpatient and day case procedures face-to-face or by telephone.
* Work closely with the nursing and anaesthetic lead for pre-operative assessment services; ensuring a high quality, safe pre-assessment service.
* Attain the 18-weeks pathway and local policy implementation; improving efficiency and productivity, delivering a same-day service; ensuring patients are seen early in their 18 weeks pathway to be optimised for anaesthesia/surgery.
The purpose of this post is to positively impact the early stages of the patient’s surgical pathway; managing, coordinating, and implementing elective pre-operative assessment for all surgical specialties across the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists, and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
* Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement.
* On-site nurseries.
* On-site staff cafes.
* On-site parking.
* Salary sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics.
Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Whilst working as part of the pre-assessment team, you will be seeing patients allocated to the clinic list. Assessment of patients for anaesthesia may be completed face-to-face or by telephone. This includes completing electronic forms requesting appropriate investigations, instigating referrals, and giving all necessary information to patients.
A successful candidate should be able to provide a welcoming environment, ensuring effective time management and prioritisation whilst managing their individual clinic caseload.
Effective communication with colleagues in many departments is essential to ensure the smooth running of the service and to facilitate patients being able to have surgery as planned.
We are currently working from the Ashford site, Monday to Friday; however, cross-site and weekend working may be required in the future.
Person specification
Qualification/experience
* Minimum 1 year experience within surgical/medical setting.
* Experience working in pre-assessment and completing assessments.
* Working in an outpatient clinic setting.
Skills
* Demonstrable communication skills both written and verbal.
* IT knowledge of Cerner/ evolve/ICE and other Trust systems.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Stephanie Sutch
Job title: Pre-Assessment Sister
Email address: stephanie.sutch@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01784884562
If you have problems applying, contact
Address: Ashford Hospital
London Road
Ashford
Middlesex
TW15 3AA
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