Job summary
- Main area
- Planned Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Monday to Friday service 8-6 and Saturday 8-1, cross site working is expected across Lister, QEII & HCH
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday service 8-6 and Saturday 8-1. Cross site working is expected across Lister, QEII & Hertford CH)
- Job ref
- 361-7307071
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Registered Nurse - Pre-operative Assessment
NHS AfC: Band 5
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse - Pre-operative Assessment who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
In this varied and rewarding role, you’ll carry out comprehensive assessments, identify potential risks, and collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team to optimise patient outcomes.
You’ll be supported by experienced senior colleagues and benefit from continuous professional development opportunities to enhance your clinical and leadership skills.
If you’re enthusiastic about delivering safe, high-quality care and thrive in a proactive, patient-focused environment—we’d love to hear from you.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will conduct comprehensive preoperative assessments, including health histories, clinical observations, and risk stratification.
You will be able to identify potential health concerns and initiate appropriate referrals or investigations to optimise patients for surgery.
The post holder will provide clear, compassionate education to patients and carers regarding the surgical pathway and perioperative care.
You will also work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support timely and safe surgical planning.
Within your role, you will contribute to quality improvement initiatives, audit activities, and development of clinical guidelines.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse on part 1, part 2 or part 12 of the NMC register
- Commitment to lifelong learning and evidence of further education, training and on -going learning
- Ability to product updated personal professional portfolio
Desirable criteria
- Degree or working towards
- Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification
Previous Experience
Desirable criteria
- Post registration experience in relevant area(s) of practice
- Evidence of working on own initiative
- Experience of audit and research skills
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
- Ability to deal with sensitive issues
- Good self -awareness
- Flexibility around working hours
- Good Time Keeping
- Work independently making sound clinical decisions
- Computer literacy
- Adaptable, Flexibility and team participation
- Ability to use own judgement and willingness to follow instruction and guidance.
- Shows appropriate professional and personal boundaries.
- Ability to exercise tact and discretion
- Ability to priorities and organise workload
Desirable criteria
- Venepuncture
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the requirements of the role
- Awareness of safeguarding frameworks.
- Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting
- Awareness of health and safety legislation and strategies for maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff, and visitors.
- Basic understanding of current NHS issues
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of and using an EPR database system or equivalent
- Understanding of Pre -operative Assessment care pathways
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Lummis
- Job title
- POA Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438 288231
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