Band 5 Staff Nurse - Pre-Op Assessment Unit

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Job Summary

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At Solihull Hospital things are changing. In Spring 2024, we open the Surgical Hub with six new theatres. These fantastic facilities will be used to reduce patient waiting times, deliver vital care pathways to those needing surgery while providing continued excellent patient care.

To meet this increasing demand we are recruiting a team of professionals within our well established Pre-Op Assessment Unit. You will join a team of enthusiastic and diligent professionals, who strive to optimise patients chronic diseases to ensure fitness for anaesthetic.

We are a nurse led service and this is an autonomous role which will see you take ownership and responsibility for your own clinic caseload and the patients you assess. You will analyse your patients assessments and investigate all results to determine a smooth journey on their per-operative pathway.

Led by senior sisters and the lead nurse you will be fully inducted into the unit, including three months clinical supervision and our in-house training package. You will be supported to attend the Pre-Operative Association Foundation course and expand your skills.

Main duties of the job

• Assess the patient’s fitness for surgery
• Identify anaesthetic/medical problems and refer appropriately for optimisation
• Prevent on the day cancellations
  
  

Please see the JD for full details

About Us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their ’whole self’ to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job Description Job Responsibilities

*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Qualifications

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• * Registered Adult Nurse on the NMC Register
• * Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
  
  

Experience Essential

• * 18-24 months post qualification experience of working in an acute secondary NHS care or primary care setting
• * A good working knowledge of a range of surgical procedures
• * A good working knowledge of a range of co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiology, anaemia
• * Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of on-going professional development/ competence
• * Experience of working on own and in a team in a health care environment delegating to others within a team / providing supervision to others
• * Willingness to become a practice supervisor / assessor to or meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for student supervision and assessment
• * Understanding and knowledge of the NMC code of conduct
• * Understanding of preceptorship and work based learning and assimilation of skills and knowledge
• * Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context
• * Understanding / experience of the principles of safeguarding and Mental Capacity
• * Awareness of health and safety issues
  
  

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Solihull Hospital

Lode Ln

Solihull

West Midlands

B91 2JL

Employer’s website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)