Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and compassionate Registered Nurse to join the Pre-Operative Team at Birmingham Women's Hospital.

The Pre-Operative Department plays a vital role in preparing patients for elective gynaecological surgery, ensuring they are clinically optimised and fully informed prior to admission. Working within a specialist women's health environment, the successful candidate will provide high-quality nursing assessments, coordinate investigations, identify and escalate potential risks, and contribute to the safe and effective planning of patient care.

This is a rewarding role that requires excellent clinical assessment skills, strong organisational abilities, and a commitment to delivering patient-centred care. The post holder will work with multidisciplinary teams, including surgeons, anaesthetists, specialist nurses, admissions teams, and allied health professionals, to support patients throughout their surgical pathway.

The service supports a wide range of gynaecology specialties including Gynaecological Oncology, Endometriosis, Urogynaecology, Fertility, and General Gynaecology. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing their own caseload and clinics, ensuring patients receive timely assessments and appropriate interventions.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for nurses with an interest in women's health to develop specialist pre-operative assessment skills.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for delivering high-quality pre-operative assessment services for patients undergoing elective gynaecological procedures. They will undertake comprehensive health assessments, coordinate investigations, provide education and support to patients, and contribute to the effective management of surgical pathways.

The successful candidate will:

• Undertake comprehensive nurse-led pre-operative assessments for patients
• Identify, assess and manage clinical risks that may affect a patient's suitability for surgery or anaesthesia.
• Arrange and perform relevant investigations including venepuncture, ECG recording, physiological observations and screening swabs.
• Review and interpret investigation results, escalating abnormal findings appropriately
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams
• Provide patients and their families with clear information regarding planned procedures, admission processes, recovery expectations and postoperative care.
• Support the development and implementation of individualised care plans.
• Maintain accurate, timely and comprehensive documentation within electronic patient records.
• Ensure safeguarding concerns are recognised, acted upon and escalated in accordance with Trust policies.
• Promote equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of care delivery and professional practice.

About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centered care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications and skills.

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for roles and when that happens, we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential

• 1st Level registered Nurse
• Evidence of recent and on-going professional development

Desirable

• Course in Mentoring and assessing in clinical practice

KNOWLEDGE & NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential

• Relevant experience post registration training
• Understanding of professional and current issues in nursing
• Interested in women's health

ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT SKILLS
Essential

• To have the ability to practice independently and manage own workload and priority
• Ability to undertake data input, collection, analysis, audit and evaluation
• Ability to be flexible for the needs of the service
• Able to think quickly in a rapidly changing environment

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential

• Sound understanding of professional nurse accountability
• Evidence of recent study
• Excellent I.T. skills Able to engage with IT programmes that support patient care
• Able to communicate effectively via email

Desirable

• Understanding of IT systems

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).