Nursing Manager - Pre-assessment

Job Description

Nursing Manager – Pre-Assessment | Spire Leicester Hospital | Oadby | Full Time | Permanent | Excellent Benefits

Spire Leicester Hospital is looking for an experienced and driven Nursing Manager to lead our Pre-Assessment service. This is a high-impact leadership role where you’ll shape a vital part of the patient journey, ensuring every patient receives safe, seamless, and high-quality care before their procedure.

You’ll take ownership of a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary service - leading your team, driving performance, and continuously improving how we deliver care.

What You’ll Be Doing

As Nursing Manager, you will:

• Lead the Pre-Assessment service, setting high standards for safe, effective, patient-centred care
• Drive team performance through strong clinical and operational leadership
• Oversee the full patient pathway, ensuring assessments are delivered efficiently and to the highest quality
• Take accountability for KPIs, service delivery, and day-to-day operational performance
• Embed a culture of clinical governance, continuous improvement, and best practice
• Lead audits and implement meaningful improvements that enhance patient outcomes
• Ensure full compliance with CQC and professional standards
• Manage staffing, resources, and budgets effectively in partnership with finance teams
• Build strong working relationships with consultants and key stakeholders
• Identify opportunities to innovate and improve the patient experience
• Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion within your team
  
  

Who We’re Looking For

• Registered Nurse with a valid NMC registration
• Strong Pre-Assessment experience
• Proven leadership experience at Ward Manager level or similar
• Experience within independent healthcare (desirable)

Solid background in clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement

Leadership/management qualification (or working towards)

Evidence of ongoing CPD

A confident, proactive leader with excellent communication and organisational skills

Someone who is forward-thinking and motivated to improve services

Benefits

We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
• ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
• Free Bupa wellness screening
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
  
  

Our Values

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion.
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together
  
  

We commit to our employees’ well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.