Clinical Support Worker - Pre-Operative Assessment
The closing date is 16 March 2026
Join our dedicated Pre-Operative Assessment team and play a vital role in delivering safe, compassionate, and high-quality patient care. As a Clinical Support Worker, you will work alongside Registered Nurses to ensure patients are fully prepared, informed, and supported ahead of surgery.
In this hands‑on role, you’ll provide personalized care, undertake clinical observations (including blood pressure, pulse, temperature, oxygen saturation and respirations), assist with venepuncture and delegated procedures following training, and accurately document findings using electronic patient systems. You’ll also support patient comfort and dignity, assist with daily living activities, escort patients for investigations, and help maintain a safe, clean, and well‑stocked clinical environment.
Working under the supervision of a Registered Nurse, you’ll be trusted to prioritise delegated tasks, respond calmly in busy or unpredictable situations, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement. This role requires strong communication skills, compassion, physical resilience, and a commitment to safeguarding, infection prevention, and equality, diversity and inclusion.
If you are motivated, flexible, and passionate about delivering outstanding patient‑centred care, we would love to hear from you.
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.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
* Must understand basic requirements for personalised and individualised care
* Recognition of a person's right for privacy and dignity
* Awareness of Safeguarding issues
Qualifications
* GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
* Care Certificate
* Apprenticeship Level 3 in Care or equivalent vocational experience
Further Training
* Ability to attend 3 day clinical induction
* Committed to attending further training and development as identified
Experience
* Able to demonstrate clear and robust verbal and written English communication skills
* Experience of working as a team
* Previous care work experience
* Previous experience in a hospital setting
Contractual Requirements
* Flexible approach
* Able to work flexibly on a varied shift pattern according to the roster including nights and weekends
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.
Employer name
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£24,937 to £26,598 a yearper annum pro rata
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