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Spire Healthcare

Pre-Operative Assessment HOD

Sheffield

FULL TIME

August 29, 2024

Pre Assessment Manager | Head of Department | Sheffield | Competitive Salary | Great Work Life Balance | Full Time 37.5 | Permanent
Due to a period of growth we have an exciting new opportunity for a Pre-Assessment Manager to join our well established team on a full time basis.
You will be a pivotal leader and will be responsible for leading and developing the pre assessment service, ensuring safe and effective pre operative care.
Spire Claremont Hospital has provided first-class independent healthcare at the heart of the South Yorkshire community since 1953. Our hospital is situated among beautifully landscaped grounds in Crosspool, Sheffield and it is situated 3 miles (about 20 minutes) to the south west of Sheffield city centre.
Claremont Hospital has 42 beds, three laminar flow theatres, 13 consulting rooms, a static MRI and CT scanner, and plain and digital X-ray. The hospital provides surgery and outpatients with diagnostic imaging services.
Duties and responsibilities:
Clinical

Working autonomously, completes POA for a caseload of patients and backfilling protected clinic slots for short dated bookings, undertaking a targeted history with assessment of past medical, operative and anaesthetic history.
Lead on the clinical triage of all patient Health Questionnaires to ensure appropriate POA pathway identified for all patients.
Local hospital short dated bookings process to be followed to reduce pressure points and to ensure a smooth patient journey for urgent cases.
Completes testing as per NICE guidelines (NG45), interprets and manages the results, and where appropriate initiates relevant referrals to appropriate staff.
Completes venepuncture, electrocardiogram, lung function testing and requesting of x-ray as per policy.
Identifies patients with specific health issues and undertakes relevant risk scoring where indicated and manages the results.
Demonstrates appropriate review of previous anaesthetic documentation and is able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key factors that would require referral for anaesthetist assessment.
Follows up on outcomes of referrals to ensure fitness to proceed.
Provides information about any specific pre-operative instructions, intraoperative care and discharge.
Identifies cultural requirements, communication or other specialist health or social needs.
Liaises with the anaesthetist and surgeon to determine fitness to proceed.
Following assessment, seeks advice where necessary, to ensure the appropriate level of post-operative care can be determined.
Communicates any special requirements and essential resources to the MDT team.

Management

Manages the pre-operative assessment service across all surgical disciplines for level 0/1/2/3 care facilities.
Provides day to day supervision, including clinical supervision of junior nursing staff and students in POA.
Ensure all staff complete e POA competency and new starters complete induction pack to include e POA
Support recruitment, performance review, attendance management, disciplinary and grievance matters.
Completes competency assessment, training and development and the mentoring of staff.
Ensures work is carried out efficiently and to agreed working practice and protocols.
Ensures that pre-operative elective surgical care planning and delivery is managed and delivered to national and local evidence based guidelines.
Clinical outcome data is captured on POA clinical assurance board and fed in to 10@10 daily
Undertakes audit and assessment and management of key performance indicators for POA service.
Effectively communicate with all members of the multidisciplinary team and key stakeholders.
Requests medical information from General Practitioners and other healthcare providers to other to ensure all relevant information is available for the anaesthetist and surgeon.
Maintains a safe environment for patients, visitors and staff.
Ensure that staff work to national and local best practice policy and guidance.
Demonstrate effective leadership skills by supporting staff within a changing environment.
Leads on the development of the e POA roll out and ongoing service.
Actively reports on e POA at clinical governance including incident reporting and management on a monthly basis to Governance Lead.
Ensure daily safety huddles to include completion of POA quality assurance board completion is undertaken
Regular meetings are undertaken in line with Spire standard agenda template and documented minutes
All staff to be aware of POA department risks and discussed at daily huddles and meetings

Who we're looking for:

Registered Nurse with NMC (No restrictions)
Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience), with evidence of recent professional development
Knowledge of working within a pre-operative assessment.
Advance assessment skills in a POA or equivalent background.
Able to work independently and prioritise patient caseload and POA workload.
Ability to work autonomously and experience of supervision of staff.
Experience of leadership
Takes an active role in the supervision and teaching of staff and students, including assessment of EEs for junior staff.
Well-developed communication skills, written verbal and IT.

Benefits
We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
Free Bupa wellness screening
Private medical insurance
Life assurance

Please see the attached benefits leaflet for more information.
We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.
For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Lyndsay Young on Lyndsay.young@spirehealthcare.com
Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date.

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