About this role
Job summary
Are you an experienced Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) looking for an exciting opportunity to expand your skills, influence service development, and make a meaningful impact on the patient journey?
We are seeking a motivated and forward-thinking Pre-Operative Assessment Practitioner to join our friendly and dedicated team at Newark Hospital. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a progressive, nurse-led service that is at the forefront of preparing patients for surgery and delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.
As part of our dynamic team, you will assess patients across a wide range of specialties, including orthopaedics, podiatry, gynaecology, breast surgery, urology, ENT, and general surgery. No two days are the same, offering a diverse and rewarding caseload that will continually develop your clinical knowledge and decision-making skills.
The department is currently undergoing exciting transformation, with innovative projects focused on enhancing service delivery and introducing more digitally driven approaches to patient assessment and care management. This is an excellent time to join the team and play an active role in shaping the future of pre-operative care.
If you are an ambitious and compassionate practitioner who thrives in a varied and autonomous role and wants to make a real difference to patients preparing for surgery, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
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.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements Essential
Knowledge of and ability to analyse and interpret clinical results.
Qualificaitons Essential
First Level Registered Nurse or Qualified ODP Post-registration qualification or equivalent in physical assessment, interpreting results and history taking or equivalent competency based experience (or willingness to undertake). Be computer literate e.g. Word, Excel, etc including ability to use clinical databases as a clinical resource.
Desirable
Post registration 1st Level Degree.
Further Training Essential
Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience Essential
Experience of working in the acute surgical environment Evidence of experience in performing clinical assessment of patients.
Personal attributes/ skills and abilities Essential
Self-motivated and effective Practitioner Good communication skills with clear written and oral skills Proven management skills- effective organisation abilities, supervisory skills, leadership skills, change management skills Able to work to deadlines Able to manage own workload and delegate tasks appropriately Ability to work within a team and independently when required Ability to analyse and interpret clinical results Ability to act on findings and initiate changes to the patient pathway
Contractual Requirements Essential
Contracted hours worked on a rota basis The post holder will be required to work flexibly across both sites and unsocial hours inclusive of evenings and weekends to meet the demands of the role
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 details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address Newark Hospital
Boundary Road
Newark
NG24 4DE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)