Description:
Spire Hartswood Hospital is a busy 49 bed hospital with 4 theatres and offers a comprehensive range of services and facilities. Our vision is to be recognised as a world class healthcare business bringing together the best people who are dedicated to developing excellent clinical environments and delivering the highest quality patient care.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Working autonomously, complete POA for a caseload of patients and backfilling protected clinic slots for short dated bookings, undertaking a targeted history with assessment of past medical, operative and anaesthetic history.
- Lead on the clinical triage of all patient Health Questionnaires to ensure appropriate POA pathway identified for all patients.
- Local hospital short dated bookings process to be followed to reduce pressure points and to ensure a smooth patient journey for urgent cases.
- Completes testing as per NICE guidelines (NG45), interprets and manages the results, and where appropriate initiates relevant referrals to appropriate staff.
- Completes venepuncture, electrocardiogram, lung function testing and requesting of x-ray as per policy.
- Identifies patients with specific health issues and undertakes relevant risk scoring where indicated and manages the results.
- Follows up on outcomes of referrals to ensure fitness to proceed.
- Provides information about any specific pre-operative instructions, intraoperative care and discharge.
- Identifies cultural requirements, communication or other specialist health or social needs.
- Liaises with the anaesthetist and surgeon to determine fitness to proceed.
- Communicates any special requirements and essential resources to the MDT team.
- Provide advice and support on assessment approaches and conclusions to colleagues and others, proactively and on request.
- Ensure individuals and team are able to access suitable learning opportunity to enable them to work in a healthy, safe and productive way, and are able to voice their concerns without fear of reproach.
- Act as a role model in promoting health, safety and security and engage in appropriate exercises and training and investigations to update and extend knowledge. Encourage these characteristics within the team.
Who We're Looking For
- Adult Nursing Degree and registered with the NMC
- Knowledge of working within a pre-operative assessment.
- Advance assessment skills in a POA or equivalent background.
- Able to work independently and prioritise patient caseload and POA workload.
- Ability to work autonomously and experience of supervision of staff.
- Experience of leadership
- Well-developed communication skills, written verbal and IT.
- Participates and assists in the development of policy, guidelines and patient information for POA.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships, both internally and externally
- Strong focus on delivering and meeting customer expectations
- Takes an active role in the supervision and teaching of staff and students, including assessment of EEs for junior staff.
- Demonstrate your scope of practice underpins the six fundamental values of the 6 C’s (Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment) and the care they deliver to the patient at the point of contact treats them with respect and dignity.