Obtain a thorough medical profile of each patient using assessment skills. Make clinical decisions against protocol regarding their health and fitness.
Plan patient care to optimise health prior to admission - including complex issues requiring the Nurse to be the person in communication between members of multidisciplinary teams.
To work unsupervised, guided by hospital protocols and manage the caseloads to ensure patients are seen close to appointment time and that all follow-ups are done.
Provide health promotion and patient teaching to optimise health prior to surgery - smoking cessation, fasting, and medicines management.
Complete additional training to perform 12 lead ECG recording and venepuncture.
Alter patients medication regime according to protocol during the pre-operative period.
Maintain effective documentation, ensuring safe custody of medical/nursing records.
Ensure patients are physically and mentally prepared for surgery.

We are seeking a motivated and experienced staff nurse to join our team.
The successful candidate will have an interest in peri-operative care and be able to thrive in a busy area with many time pressures and deadlines.
We provide detailed medical and nursing assessment for both elective, day case and surgical inpatients.
You will be part of a small, supportive team but will need to be able to work independently within a clinic and manager a potentially complex caseload of patients.
This post provides a great deal of job satisfaction and a chance to provide one on one patient care.

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people's age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you'll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future - a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust., We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national Centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our 'Right Care' behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make these part of our DNA.

If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard or Basic £26.40) from your first full months salary. This is a condition of your employment.
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