Pre-operative Assessment Band 5

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experience band 5 nurse to join our pre-operative assessment service. Have you a minimum of 3-4 years band 5 or equivalent experience and looking for a new challenge in an ever expanding and growing team then pre-op might be for you.
You must be dynamic in your thinking able to work both autonomously and in a team and be able to make decisions on best treatment plans following the nice guidelines based on the information obtained from your patients.
The post holder will be responsible for effectively delivering skilled nursing care to patients using a systemic approach of assessing planning, implementing and evaluating to ensure a high standard of care. The post holder will carry out pre-admission screening of patients ensuring that they are fit for addition to the relevant surgical waiting list.
They will ensure patient care is managed in order that their health is optimised prior to their admission for surgery and any special needs identified and acted upon. If required supervision and support will be provided by senior staff.
They will identify any and manage/report any impact on shifts/ workload and staffing levels.
They will proactively engage with patients, relatives and carers to seek their views, gain agreement and keep them informed about their treatment and care. Ensuring they are fully aware informed of proposed treatment plans, are correctly prepared for theatre and their questions answered, escalating for support if required. They will demonstrate compassion by recognising and responding to individual needs in a warm, thoughtful, sensitive and helpful way.
Maintain registration, and nursing competencies, and comply with NMC code of Professional Conduct and related documents.
To be flexible to work within other areas or departments to meet the demands of the trust workforce model and changing service needs.
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
**Benefits we offer to you**:

- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union
- for local financial advice

Responsibility for Patient Care
- Assist patients/service users/carers/relatives during incidental contacts.
- Act as patient’s advocate in promoting, and delivering the highest standard of nursing care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed in a dignified and respectful manner.
- Ensure all current and relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Using evidence-based practice, assess patients' physical, psychological, and spiritual needs, create care plans, implement, and evaluate nursing care involving patients and carers, as appropriate. Where appropriate book patient to see anaesthetist if specific beliefs could impact on surgery, for example Jehovah’s witness.
- Ensure patient’s nutrition and hydration needs are met.
- Undertake and record full initial assessments as you are assessing patients.
- Perform nursing care and enhanced clinical skills to a high-quality standard within your scope of practice, following NICE guidelines, national and local trust guidelines.
- Monitor patients’ condition and report observations to relevant health professionals, carrying out nursing interventions as required, this could include sending your patient to ED if required.
- Demonstrate safe storage of medications that are to be collected by patients and that prescriptions get to pharmacy in a timely manner.
- Achieve and maintain core and specific competencies.
- Report and record all untoward incidents and investigate any incidents, which occur when taking charge.
- Contribute to the ward accreditation programme as required.
- Supervise junior staff where required, this could also include completing their appraisals.
- Manage your own caseload and prioritise to facilitate an efficient service.
- As part of the pre op process ensure a senior colleague supports you with any concerns and performs a clinical assessment of heart and lungs on your patient, this is to be done while the patient is in the department to reduce cancellation and quality care for your patient.

Planning and organising
- Organise and plan own day to day workload for activities to meet the demands of the job role.
- Collaborat