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Pre-Op Practitioner

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Newark, NG24 4DE £39,959 – £48,117 a year Permanent Posted 27 August 2026 Apply by 10 September 2026

Home Office register entry: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottinghamshire

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Role description

Job summary

Are you an experienced Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) looking for an exciting opportunity to expand your skills, influence service development, and make a meaningful impact on the patient journey?

We are seeking a motivated and forward-thinking Pre-Operative Assessment Practitioner to join our friendly and dedicated team at Newark Hospital. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a progressive, nurse-led service that is at the forefront of preparing patients for surgery and delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.

As part of our dynamic team, you will assess patients across a wide range of specialties, including orthopaedics, podiatry, gynaecology, breast surgery, urology, ENT, and general surgery. No two days are the same, offering a diverse and rewarding caseload that will continually develop your clinical knowledge and decision-making skills.

The department is currently undergoing exciting transformation, with innovative projects focused on enhancing service delivery and introducing more digitally driven approaches to patient assessment and care management. This is an excellent time to join the team and play an active role in shaping the future of pre-operative care.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Details

Date posted

27 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

214-SRG-8209971

Job locations

Newark Hospital

Boundary Road

Newark

NG24 4DE

United Kingdom


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Knowledge of and ability to analyse and interpret clinical results.

Qualificaitons

Essential

  • First Level Registered Nurse or Qualified ODP
  • Post-registration qualification or equivalent in physical assessment, interpreting results and history taking or equivalent competency based experience (or willingness to undertake).
  • Be computer literate e.g. Word, Excel, etc including ability to use clinical databases as a clinical resource.

Desirable

  • Post registration 1st Level Degree.

Further Training

Essential

  • Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in the acute surgical environment
  • Evidence of experience in performing clinical assessment of patients.

Personal attributes/ skills and abilities

Essential

  • Self-motivated and effective Practitioner
  • Good communication skills with clear written and oral skills
  • Proven management skills- effective organisation abilities, supervisory skills, leadership skills, change management skills
  • Able to work to deadlines
  • Able to manage own workload and delegate tasks appropriately
  • Ability to work within a team and independently when required
  • Ability to analyse and interpret clinical results
  • Ability to act on findings and initiate changes to the patient pathway

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Contracted hours worked on a rota basis
  • The post holder will be required to work flexibly across both sites and unsocial hours inclusive of evenings and weekends to meet the demands of the role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Newark Hospital

Boundary Road

Newark

NG24 4DE

United Kingdom


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/

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