At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team to ensure safe pre-operative assessments and support patients through their journey.
- Company: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, dedicated to high-quality patient care.
- Benefits: Enjoy staff development, NHS pension, onsite nurseries, and psychological support.
- Other info: Access to modern facilities and excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patients' lives while developing your clinical skills.
- Qualifications: Pre-operative assessment experience and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
Pre-operative Assessment Nurse | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
This post requires Pre operative assessment experience.
As a Pre‑Assessment Staff Nurse, you will
- Work as part of a small cohesive team, ensuring safe and seamless Pre assessment patient pathways.
- Act as thefirst point of clinical contact, collaborating with multidisciplinary experts to carry out accurate and timely assessments before surgery.
- Use abroad clinical knowledge base and strong assessment skillsto identify patient needs, risks, and optimisation requirements.
- Provideholistic supportto 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 thehighest standards of safety and patient experience.
- Continue to develop your expertise by working withmodern equipment, innovative practices, and advanced clinical facilities.
- Collaborate closely with colleagues across departments, recognising thatcontinuity and communicationare 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.
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If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
- This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Aug 2026
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