Sister/Charge Nurse | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 13 Mawrth 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Huddersfield, HD3 3EA |
| Cwmni: | Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7836405/372-SURG2073 |
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Surgical Pre-Assessment Sister/Charge Nurse
Are you an enthusiastic, experienced and dynamic Pre-Assessment Nurse looking to progress further in the speciality. We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Pre-Assessment Sister/Charge Nurse with a keen interest in the optimisation of patients prior to surgery to join our team, playing a vital role in delivering effective care for patients undergoing surgical procedures.
As a Pre-Assessment Sister/Charge Nurse you will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the Pre-assessment Services within the Surgical Division. Providing clinical and managerial leadership for nursing and support staff across the unit ensuring equity of service. You will be working collaboratively with the Clinical Operations Manager to ensure patients receive safe, effective care and to deputise in their absence.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact within a trust that has received national recognition for its innovation and service improvement within operating services and Surgery and Anaesthetics division.
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Act as a clinical role model, providing leadership and guidance to staff on operational and professional issues, ensuring clinical expertise and practice is enhanced.
• To safely and competently assess patients requiring surgery and taking a lead on complex patient's assessments.
• To act as clinical co-ordinator for the pre assessment department ensuring that services run smoothly and effectively. Ensuring patients are triaged, assessed and have a clear management plan in place alongside maintaining patient safety.
• Interpret ECG recordings and take appropriate action, escalating as required.
• To perform relevant cardiovascular/respiratory assessment of patients.
• Authorise and review relevant tests and results to include bloods and ECHO and overnight oximetry.
• To recognise changes in a patient’s condition which requires the intervention of others and refer the patients on as appropriate.
• Work alongside Senior Anaesthetists both in clinic and virtually to ensure patients are assessed and investigations completed/reviewed as required.
• Ensuring optimisation treatments and prophylactic treatments are provided to patients, completing and maintaining PGD’s to support.
• Lead on optimisation of patients prior to surgery, signposting to services available and liaising with primary care and hospital specialities to ensure patients are safely assessed and fit for surgery.
• To ensure high standards of nursing care are given and maintained, taking actions as required when standards are not being upheld.
• Be proactive in the development of the clinical area, supporting and planning process and service development, contribute new ideas to improve patient care.
• Act as a mentor/preceptor to students and new staff members and actively participate in training and teaching.
• Support the Clinical Operations Manager and Matron in leading the team to meet local divisional and Trust objectives, including treatment and recovery targets and minimising cancellations.
• Contribute to the audit process and utilise results in practice.
• Develop and motivate the team.
• Co-ordinate the service delivered at CHFT in line with regional and national guidelines.
• To take an active role in risk assessment, supporting the implementation of strategies to minimise risk. Ensure incidents and near misses are reported, through promotion of a no blame culture.
• Competently managing a team of staff including support with appraisals, mandatory training and sickness management
• To manage complaints and escalate where necessary.
• To establish and maintain effective communication, both verbal and written and build relationships within the multidisciplinary teams.
• To recognise and prevent where possible areas of conflict and escalate if necessary.
• Supervise and deploy staff appropriately considering knowledge and skill mix.
• Take an active role in the recruitment process.
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Mar 2026