Pre Operative Assessment Practitioner

6 months ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust are proud to own two acute hospitals. Maidstone hospital, Kent’s home oncology centre, has a wide range of complex and routine surgical and medical services and has the latest in diagnostic facilities.

We are looking for dedicated and passionate Band 5 Registered Nurses/ HCPC practitioners to work with our Pre
- Operative Assessment Team at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital.

Do you have good communication and interpersonal skills along with an ability to work as part of a team? Are you used to liaising with a wide variety of members from the multi-disciplinary team and have a passion for improving the patient’s surgical pathway? Then this could be the role for you

Pre-assessment personnel play a pivotal role in delivering safe and efficient pre-operative care by optimising patients for surgery. You will be working with the multi-disciplinary teams, including GP’s and Anaesthetists to provide effective assessment to ensure our patients and their families/carers receive excellent preparation for surgical procedures.

The Pre-operative assessment clinic has recently initiated a state of the art innovative digital preoperative assessment programme and our aim is provide all our patients with the highest standard of surgical care.

Our pre-assessment personel will play an important role in assessing patients for specialities including ENT, Orthopaedics, Urology, Gynae, Breast and Surgical procedures.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ over 6,500 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work with Stonewall to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics

**Interview date**: Thursday 5th August 2021.



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