# Matron Preoperative Assessment and ACAD Day Care Surgery Unit

**Company**: London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
**Location**: Acton
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £63,665 to £70,887 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity to lead the next chapter of Preoperative Assessment and ACAD Day Care Surgery at London North West Hospital Trust. We are looking for a dynamic, inspirational, and forward-thinking nurse leader to join our team at an exciting time of development and transformation within the trust's Preoperative Assessment.

The service is continuing on an ambitious programme of change as we evolve our traditional preoperative assessment model towards a prehabilitation service supporting patients to be fit and prepared for surgery and optimising their outcomes.

**Main Duties of the Job**

We are looking for an experienced and motivated nurse leader who can build on the strong foundations already established and continue the implementation and development of our multimodal training programme, supporting our nursing team to develop knowledge, skills, and confidence across the evolving service.

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who is passionate about clinical leadership, education, innovation, and improving patient outcomes.

**Job Responsibilities**

The post holder has a pivotal role in shaping the future of our service, working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and driving improvement in the way we prepare patients for surgery.

**Benefits**

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 8a salary: £63,665 to £70,887 per year, inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement

- Permanent, full-time contract

**Requirements**

- Independent non-medical prescriber/physical assessment course

- Leadership qualification

- Proven track record of recent operational nursing management at a senior level in an acute hospital setting

- Extensive post-registration experience in acute/chronic medical/surgical

- Up-to-date knowledge of current clinical POA and day care and professional issues

- Demonstrable experience in workforce management, and in leading and managing teams, including recruitment, appraisal, performance management, and HR processes

## Skills

### Required
- clinical leadership
- education
- innovation
- patient outcomes
- preoperative assessment
- day care surgery
- multimodal training programme
- workforce management
- team leadership

### Nice to have
- advanced clinical practitioner course

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