Staff Nurse - Preoperative Assesment
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 14/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
KIMS Hospital is seeking an experienced and motivated Registered Nurse to join their Preoperative Assessment team. The role involves holistically assessing patients undergoing surgery to ensure excellent patient care. You will perform ECGs, phlebotomy, and monitor vital signs to determine patient fitness for procedures. This position requires a passion for preoperative assessment and understanding its value in elective surgery pathways.
Essential criteria
- Be a qualified Nurse with current NMC PIN.
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate course in the relevant specialty.
- Previous experience in being involved in or running pre-operative assessment clinics.
- Knowledge of clinical governance and its application.
- Experience of using electronic pre-assessment systems.
- Be a qualified Nurse with current NMC PIN.
- Post Graduate course in the relevant specialty.
- Previous experience in being involved in or running pre-operative assessment clinics.
- Knowledge of clinical governance and its application.
- Experience of using electronic pre-assessment systems.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £17,100 – £19,125 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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KIMS Hospital
Staff Nurse - Preoperative Assesment
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Location: KIMS Hospital, Maidstone
Contract: 22.5 Hours per week, [phone number removed] between Monday and Friday (Saturday working as per service requirements)
Salary: £17,100 - £19,125 (Equivalent to a full-time salary of (£30,400 - £34,000)
Are you a Registered Nurse with a passion for preoperative assessment? Do you want to have the time to care for your patients?
KIMS Hospital has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated registered nurse to join our Preoperative Assessment team as a Staff Nurse. You will be a key member of our multi-disciplinary Preoperative Assessment team and will be responsible for the holistic assessment of all patients undergoing surgery at KIMS Hospital to ensure excellent patient care.
This role is ideally suited to an experienced registered nurse who is passionate about the preoperative assessment service and understands its value in elective surgery pathways.
Main duties of the job
A preoperative assessment staff nurse will:
- Always demonstrate good clinical practice and be accountable for own actions, acting within the NMC code of practice.
- Perform ECG’s and phlebotomy along with monitoring blood pressures, weight and height to assess patients, to determine they are fit for their procedure prior to admi
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