Pre Assessment Senior Nurse
- NHS
- Full Time
- St John's Wood
- Negotiable
Job Description
Job summary
Are you an experienced Registered Nurse with a passion for delivering safe, effective, and patientcentred preoperative care? We are seeking a motivated and clinically confident PreAssessment Senior Nurse to join our dynamic PreAssessment Unit.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
- Delivering highquality, evidencebased 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.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- A Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
- Experienced in preassessment or perioperative care
- Confident in clinical assessment, decisionmaking, 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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Employer details
Employer name
The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
Address
60 Grove End Road
St John's Wood
London
NW8 9NH
United Kingdom
