Pre-Operative Assessment Nurse

Pre-Operative Assessment Nurse

The closing date is 24 Chwefror 2026

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the patient is fit for an anaesthetic during surgery. This will involve taking a patient's full medical history, and the ordering of investigations as deemed necessary.

The main duties of the role are to assess a patient's suitability and fitness for surgery and anaesthesia using agreed protocols. The successful post holder will be expected to take a full detailed patient history, carry out a clinical examination, and where identified order diagnostic tests and action results obtained.

The candidate will require excellent communication skills, and the need to communicate with a wide range of disciplines is essential.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award‑winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year.

The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

The post holder will be required to ensure a patient fitness to undergo an anaesthetic. The clinics are predominantly nurse‑led, and will involve a physical examination of the patient along with obtaining a full medical history. Where identified, the post holder will undertake the ordering of appropriate investigations and action any results.

Communication with all MDT members is crucial to ensure patient safety.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written
• Able to work without supervision
• Teaching & assessing experience
• Competence in venepuncture
• Competence in Consent for Research
• Competence in Tissue donation consent
• Skills in change management and project development
• Ability to adapt to change within working situations

• Extensive experience of surgical preassessment
• Evidence of up-to-date standards of clinical practice
• Experience of audit
• Experience of telephone preassessment
• Experience in care of patients undergoing all forms of surgery

• Current NMC Registration
• CPD Clinical Examination
• Evidence of professional development
• Teaching Certificate
• Nursing degree or working towards a degree
• Counseling course

• Flexible
• Motivated and able to motivate others
• Calm and objective
• Ability to adapt to changing needs of the service
• Positive and proactive approach to problem solving
• Able to think laterally
• Demonstrates an understanding of the principles of evidence-based practice

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.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust