We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse - Pre-operative Assessment who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
In this varied and rewarding role, you'll carry out comprehensive assessments, identify potential risks, and collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team to optimise patient outcomes.
You'll be supported by experienced senior colleagues and benefit from continuous professional development opportunities to enhance your clinical and leadership skills.
If you're enthusiastic about delivering safe, high-quality care and thrive in a proactive, patient-focused environment—we'd love to hear from you.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
The successful candidate will conduct comprehensive preoperative assessments, including health histories, clinical observations, and risk stratification.
You will be able to identify potential health concerns and initiate appropriate referrals or investigations to optimise patients for surgery.
The post holder will provide clear, compassionate education to patients and carers regarding the surgical pathway and perioperative care.
You will also work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support timely and safe surgical planning.
Within your role, you will contribute to quality improvement initiatives, audit activities, and development of clinical guidelines.
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.