Assistant Pre-Operative Assessment Practitioner | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 31 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,625 - £25,674 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 August 2025 |
| Location: | Newark, NG24 4DE |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7132535/214-SRG-7132535 |
Summary
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to advance your career in healthcare?
We are delighted to offer a rewarding opportunity for an Assistant Pre-Operative Assessment Practitioner to join our dedicated team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
As part of the Pre-Operative Assessment service, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality care to our patients. This role offers an excellent chance to develop a broad range of clinical skills including:
• 12-lead ECG recording
• Venepuncture
• Local anaesthetic telephone assessments
You will be an integral part of a supportive and forward-thinking team, committed to ensuring patients are fully prepared for their surgical journey.
Please see the main duties of the job description where a detailed description of main responsibilities of the role are specified.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9thApril, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Please see the main duties of the job description where a detailed description of main responsibilities of the role are specified.
This advert closes on Thursday 14 Aug 2025
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