Band 5 staff nurses

Overview

Caroline Ward is a dynamic unit that is changing with the increasing demands on the St George's Cardiothoracic service, a regional tertiary centre delivering high quality care. Our focus is always to provide quality patient care and our team values reflect those of the Trust:
Excellent, Kind, Responsible and Respect. Caroline Ward is a 24-bedded thoracic ward. You will be part of the team that looks after patients from the beginning of their surgical journey to the time they are discharged from the ward. We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic nurses who are keen to develop and enhance their clinical skills with our diverse patient population.

We are looking for band 5 staff nurses who appreciate the challenge and reward of working in a specialist area and working alongside with the multi-disciplinary team. As an acute thoracic ward we require a minimum of 6 to 12 months experience within an acute healthcare setting but newly qualified nurses are encouraged to apply. You will be expected to work independently and in turn we will able to support and offer you the ability to advance your skills and aim to provide you with a high standard of training in the clinical area and through our mentorship programme, clinical practice development team, and from higher education institutions.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country s leading teaching hospitals with an international reputation for quality patient care, education and research. With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting, is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research.

St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma.

Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.