# Sister/Charge Nurse POA

**Company**: Barts Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £47951.00 to £56863.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, flexible, forward thinking band 6 nurse to join our friendly, progressive Pre-operative Assessment nursing team at The Royal London Hospital.

You will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team, whilst utilising your clinical expertise to provide holistic, integrated patient centred care. This is an excellent opportunity to consolidate and expand your existing skills. The ability to use your own initiative and to work as part of a team are essential.

**Main duties of the job** The post holder will be responsible for managing a caseload of elective surgical patients, assessing, planning and co-ordinating individualised care for patients undergoing elective surgical operations. They will work with all members of the MDT to ensure that the care the patients receive is of a consistently high quality.

**Job responsibilities**

- Registered Nurse

- Prep for Mentorship course or equivalent

- Specialist post registration Clinical Course relevant to pre-operative assessment.

- Physical assessment skills and clinical history taking skills (cardio vascular, respiratory, airway)

- Phlebotomy skills

- Good level of skill in computer usage - able to use NHS data bases, input data and retrieve information.

- Awareness of current issues and reforms in the NHS.

- Experience of good budgetary control and efficient use of resources.

- Desire for service improvement and efficiencies.

**Experience**

- Minimum of 2 years at band 5 in an acute surgical area/theatres area.

- Proven professional competence.

- Awareness of research and audit related to Pre-operative Assessment

- Evidence of continuing education in relevant field of practice.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year per annum inc.

- Permanent contract

- Full-time position

## Skills

### Required
- Physical assessment skills
- clinical history taking skills
- phlebotomy skills
- computer usage
- budgetary control
- service improvement

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