Nurse Practitioner, Pre Assessment

West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

7/31/2025

Job Purpose: To ensure the maintenance of high quality patient focused care at all times, through effective leadership of staff and managed resources. To work according to the NMC Code of Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour for Nurses, relevant professional guidelines and frameworks, including the 6 Cs and upholding the Trusts 4ward Behaviours. As a named nurse / key worker for a defined group of patients, working autonomously, to take responsibility for: The provision of accurate pre-operative patient information. Ensuring that all necessary follow up and discharge preparations are in place prior to admission.

Conducting holistic clinical assessments of all patients awaiting surgery, making appropriate onward referrals in a timely fashion. Providing health promotion, making every contact count. Managing the unit in the absence of the Band 6 Junior Sister and the Band 7. Ensuring that own skills are developed and shared with team as appropriate.

Ensuring effective communication with patients, relatives, carers and the multidisciplinary team. Participation in preceptorship programmes as appropriate and act as a facilitator / mentor / preceptor / role model to other members of the team. Providing supervision, support and education to unqualified staff, students and new staff team members. Liaising with Consultants and their teams in the event of surgical cancellations.

Working alongside the Clinical Anaesthetic Lead and anaesthetic team. Key Duties: Patient Care Responsibilities Acting as a Named Nurse/Case manager to a cohort of patients from POA to admission. Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care within the framework of team nursing. Evaluation of patient health history and identifies previously unknown health concerns.

Able to undertake advanced clinical health assessment including cardiac and respiratory assessment and examination. Independently make onward referrals to an additional service as appropriate e.g. General Practitioner, Specialist Nurse. Follow up advice, referral, investigations for patients presenting with significant co morbidities.

Acts as a resource and provides advice on the management of patients to staff at Band 5. To co-ordinate the patients discharge arrangements in accordance with WAHT discharge policy. To promote a patient-focused approach to care in collaboration with all relevant health professionals. To obtain an accurate and concise medical and medicines histories from the patient using interpersonal skills to facilitate the assessment of the patient for both minor and major surgery.

Uses information obtained during the assessment, to determine the patients fitness to proceed for surgery, demonstrating the appropriate action to take in the event of not fit to proceed. Ensure the patient has an understanding of their proposed operation by providing accurate peri-operative information both verbally and in writing. Provide information that will enable the patient to make choices about adopting a healthier lifestyle and makes a referral, as appropriate, for optimisation of their health before surgery. Arranges and co-ordinates any assessment and/or investigations needed near the time of surgery, in accordance with local and national guidance.

Identifies abnormal readings and acts on the findings in an appropriate and timely manner. To assist in establishing and monitoring of protocols and care pathways. To ensure effective communication with patients, relatives and other staff. To support peoples equality, diversity and rights at all times.

To safe guard vulnerable adults in accordance with agreed policies and procedures.

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