Pre Assessment Senior Nurse

Pre Assessment Senior Nurse

The closing date is 18 May 2026

Are you an experienced Registered Nurse with a passion for delivering safe, effective, and patient-centred preoperative care? We are seeking a motivated and clinically confident Pre Assessment Senior Nurse to join our dynamic Pre Assessment Unit.

You will play a key part in ensuring patients are optimised and fully prepared for surgery, contributing to excellent surgical outcomes and a seamless patient journey.

Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line, minutes from Central London, our independent private Hospital has just been rated the number one in the country for care in the latest Bupa survey. Uniquely, all profits fund our onsite Hospice, St Johns.

• Delivering high quality, evidence based preassessment care
• Conduct comprehensive facetoface and telephone assessments
• Analyse clinical findings and determine patient fitness for surgery
• Liaise with anaesthetists, intensivists, and multidisciplinary teams to optimise patient care
• Perform triage of referrals and patient queries
• Review patient notes and ensure accurate, compliant documentation
• Attend bed meetings and contribute to safe patient flow
• Supervise and mentor junior staff and HCAs
• Support service development, audits, and quality improvement initiatives
• Ensure adherence to national guidelines, infection control standards, and organisational policies

This role requires excellent clinical judgement, strong communication skills, and the ability to work autonomously while supporting a wider team.

• A Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Experienced in preassessment or perioperative care
• Confident in clinical assessment, decision making, and patient optimisation
• An effective communicator with strong organisational skills
• Motivated, flexible, and able to lead by example
• Competent in using clinical IT systems (experience with Lifebox is desirable)
• Able to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary environment

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.

The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth