Assistant Pre-Operative Assessment Practitioner

Job summary

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to advance your career in healthcare?

We are delighted to offer a rewarding opportunity for anAssistant Pre-Operative Assessment Practitionerto join our dedicated team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

As part of thePre-Operative Assessmentservice, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality care to our patients. This role offers an excellent chance to develop a broad range of clinical skills including:

• 12-lead ECG recording
• Venepuncture
• Local anaesthetic telephone assessments

You will be an integral part of a supportive and forward-thinking team, committed to ensuring patients are fully prepared for their surgical journey.

Main duties of the job

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About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.