Perioperative Care Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for detailed job description of the role.

Main duties of the job

Exciting opportunities have arisen within our expanding and innovative Perioperative care team at UHS. The post holder will work within the Perioperative care service, helping to ensure that patients are fully optimised prior to surgery to improve their experience, reduce perioperative risks and contribute to reducing elective surgery waiting times.

The Perioperative care service at UHS comprises of surgical Pre-Assessment, the Perioperative anaemia service, Cardio-pulmonary exercise testing, Prehabilitation, fit for surgery school and a Shared decision making service. We are also expanding our current early screening programme to ensure appropriate referral of patients to the new Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre. Early Screening will increase both the number of patients receiving a perioperative risk screening and the number of patients receiving optimisation prior to surgery, providing benefits to the patients and the trust.

Currently the focus of this role will be to cover the Pre-Assessment service at Southampton General Hospital with the view to work across sites at Lymington and Royal South Hants (once you are trained and competent to work independently).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will have previous experience working within perioperative care as an autonomous Nurse Practitioner.

The Perioperative care team at UHS is extremely innovative and always strives to provide the best possible care to patients. If you feel that you are dedicated to continuous learning, improving and innovating then this role is for you! You will join a friendly and enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team who pride themselves in delivering patient centred care.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, flexible individual who is confident, able to multi-task effectively, prioritise workload, be a good team worker, and motivated in their learning and development. Ability to travel between sites is essential.

Specific to this role we are open to discussing flexibility in the hours that you work. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, and we will explore what’s possible for the role and service.