Job summary
As a Pre-Assessment Nurse you will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the Pre-assessment Services within the Surgical Division. Providing clinical and managerial leadership for nursing andsupport staff across the unit ensuring equity of service. You will be working collaboratively with the Band 6 nursing team and Clinical Operations Manager to ensure patients receive safe and effective care.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact within a trust that has received national recognition for its innovation and service improvement within operating services and Surgery and Anaesthetics division.
Main duties of the job
Ensuring patients are triaged, assessed and have a clear management plan in place alongside maintaining patient safety.
Responsible for supporting the nursing team on a day-to-day basis ensuring care is delivered to a high standard, individualised and with compassion.
Act as a clinical role model, ensuring clinical expertise and practice is enhanced. Delegating work to match capabilities and workload of team members and supervision/knowledge sharing with junior staff as required.
To safely and competently assess patients requiring surgery and taking a lead on complex patient's assessments.
Working closely with Senior Anaesthetic colleagues to ensure patients are reviewed following Pre-Assessment using clinical knowledge.
Support optimisation of patients prior to surgery, signposting to services available and liaising with primary care and hospital specialities to ensure patients are safely assessed and fit for surgery.
Working with the Band 6 nursing teamtowards local, divisional and Trust objectives, treatment and recovery targets and minimising on day cancellations.
Ensuring optimisation treatments and prophylactic treatments are provided to patients, completing and maintaining PGD's to support.
About us
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- 1st Level NMC Registration
- Responsibility to plan own post basic education
Desirable
- Mentorship qualification
- Teaching and Assessing Course
- Pre Assessment qualification
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Experience in secondary care.
- Knowledge of conditions and treatments within sphere of practice
Desirable
- Experience in pre assessment
- Up to date professional knowledge of local and national pre-assessment strategies and guidelines
- Post registration experience in either surgery or general medicine
- Leadership at the Point of Care
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- Ability to motivate staff
- Ability to prioritise workload of self and others
- Excellent written and verbal communication skill Approachable and supportive to junior department staff
- Use of electronic patient records/pathways
- Be able to plan and organise teaching sessions for junior members of staff.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- 1st Level NMC Registration
- Responsibility to plan own post basic education
Desirable
- Mentorship qualification
- Teaching and Assessing Course
- Pre Assessment qualification
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Experience in secondary care.
- Knowledge of conditions and treatments within sphere of practice
Desirable
- Experience in pre assessment
- Up to date professional knowledge of local and national pre-assessment strategies and guidelines
- Post registration experience in either surgery or general medicine
- Leadership at the Point of Care
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- Ability to motivate staff
- Ability to prioritise workload of self and others
- Excellent written and verbal communication skill Approachable and supportive to junior department staff
- Use of electronic patient records/pathways
- Be able to plan and organise teaching sessions for junior members of staff.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
