Pre-Operative Assessment Nurse

Job Summary

• Work as part of a small cohesive team, ensuring safe and seamless Pre assessment patient pathways.
• Act as the first point of clinical contact, collaborating with multidisciplinary experts to carry out accurate and timely assessments before surgery.
• Use a broad clinical knowledge base and strong assessment skills to identify patient needs, risks, and optimisation requirements.
• Provide holistic support to patients and their families, ensuring they feel informed, reassured, and confident throughout the pre‑operative journey.
• Deliver care with compassion, professionalism, and attention to detail, maintaining the highest standards of safety and patient experience.
• Continue to develop your expertise by working with modern equipment, innovative practices, and advanced clinical facilities.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues across departments, recognising that continuity and communication are essential to high‑quality perioperative care.

Daily assessment of patients current and past medical health and previous anaesthetic history to ascertain fitness for proposed procedure or operation. Take an accurate and detailed up to date list of medication and inform patients of any stoppage of medication as per Pre‑Assessment guidance. Be able to act on any abnormal history and results. Work closely with your colleagues. Raise any concerns to senior nurse on duty and or Clinic Anaesthetist.

Deliver safe appropriate patient care. Support is available to read ECG's and blood results.

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto‑enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation. In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.

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• 1st level Registered Nurse – Diploma or Degree level study

• ECDL or alternative IT qualification

• Generic Pre Registration experience

• Experience in a hospital environment

• Effective interpersonal/ communication skills

• Additional skills & knowledge appropriate to speciality

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.

Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer name:
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Address:
Conquest Hospital, The Ridge, St Leonards on sea, TN37 7RD
, United Kingdom
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