Provide Community
Pre-Operative Nurse
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Main area Podiatric Surgery
Grade Band 6
Contract Permanent
Hours Part time - 15 hours per week
Job ref 828-PROVIDE4247
Employer Provide CIC
Employer type NHS
Site Braintree Community Hospital
Town Braintree
Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing Today at 23:59
Job Overview
The post holder will work within podiatric surgery service provision to manage the safe day case treatment within Provide. They will be responsible for pre-operative nursing and medical assessment of patients being prepared for a variety of day case podiatric procedures in elective to urgent categories. They will provide a comprehensive nursing and medical assessment, ensuring that all necessary investigations and results are collated prior to the patient’s admission.
The post holder will manage and coordinate pre-admission health assessment, advice, information, and support to patients, families, and carers on all aspects of day case treatments. They will also be supported by a contracted peri-op physician as required for input on complex cases.
Main duties of the job
- Ensure that delivery of service/care is of a high standard and in accordance with hospital policies and procedures.
- Prioritise, organise, and plan own workload to ensure safe and timely patient assessment.
- Delivery of up-to-date evidenced-based care and advice is given to patients and carers.
- To develop a thorough understanding of the spectrum of foot surgery, risks, recovery, and advice required to optimise patient understanding and compliance.
- Conduct pre-admission health assessment.
- Organise investigations in clinics following training and assessment, collate and interpret results, discuss findings with relevant staff.
- Ensure that all supportive pre-medication, hydration, and medications have been prescribed.
- Manage omission and restart of medications prior to procedures in accordance with guidelines following an evaluation of the risks vs. the benefits.
- Liaise with the podiatric surgery team and GP’s to ensure any patients unfit for admission are treated and followed up appropriately.
- Provide health education, advising healthy lifestyle e.g. smoking cessation and weight loss advice.
- Identify patients that may be unfit for day case admission or will require assistance at home are identified at pre-assessment clinic.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive, and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
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We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes, and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families, and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia, and the North of England.
A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation, and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee-owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring, and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority, and Men’s Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see attached job description for full detailed list of duties and requirements of the role advertised.
Person specification
Clinical
Essential criteria
- 2 years post-registration in medical or surgical nursing care
- Pre-op anaesthetic training and competencies
- Evidence of continuous professional development in peri-op care
- ECG use and interpretation
Desirable criteria
- Experience working within an MDT
- Advanced assessment skills qualification
- Post-registration elective orthopaedics experience/education
Further Information
How will we contact you?
All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination. We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices, and the National Living Wage.
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You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
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