Bank Registered Nurse - Pre-Assessment

Job description

Pre-Operative Assessment Nurse Bank contract, Monday - Friday Up to 21 per hour, dependent on experience Tollerton, South Nottingham

Spire Nottingham are looking for experienced pre-assessment nurses to join our growing and fast-paced pre-operative assessment team. We are continuing to grow, and have recently opened a new 5 bedded critical care unit.

Spire Nottingham Hospital is the only CQC Outstanding rated private hospital in Nottinghamshire and we are committed to delivering excellent individual care from the first time a patient contacts us until after their treatment is complete. Our state of the art, purpose built hospital located in Tollerton, has 42 private ensuite rooms, 4 theatres including a hybrid theatre, a 5 bed Critical Care Unit, a minor ops suite in Outpatients, 11 day case beds, endoscopy suite, on-site MRI, CT, X-ray, ultrasound and mammography, physiotherapy, pharmacy and 300 free car parking spaces.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Working in a fast paced nurse led pre assessment service alongside two lead anaesthetists.
• Assessing pre-operative patients and ensuring patients are optimised for surgery including dealing with blood results and ECGs.
• Responsible for providing exemplary care for patients visiting the hospital for surgery.
• Carrying out Electronic Pre-Operative Assessments. Full training will be given.
• Working as part of a wider MDT team including surgeons, anaesthetists and consultants.

Who we're looking for:

• You must be a qualified nurse with experience in a similar acute or surgical setting
• Previous Pre-Assessment experience would be advantageous, but is not essential.
• You must hold a valid NMC pin with no conditions or restrictions
• You must have excellent communication skills and be keen to develop your patient assessment, decision-making and clinical skills.
• You will be computer literate and confident in your ability to assess over the phone.
• Pre-Assessment qualification would be an advantage, but is not essential.

Benefits

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Save an average of 50 per month with our free onsite car park
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire's specialist Resourcing Team

Please see the attached benefits leaflet for more information.

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

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Hannah Radford on

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

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