Senior Staff Nurse

Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Georges Hospital Town London Salary £46,419 - £55,046 per annum HCAS inc (pro-rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 10/03/2026 23:59

• Providing excellent nursing care. As skills and competencies develop taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the ward or department on a regular basis.
• Supervising and mentoring junior staff.
• Maintaining personal contact with patients, relatives and carers, being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and ensuring a friendly environment at all times.
• As skills develop, managing the ward or department in the absence of the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse or Deputy, maintaining safe staffing levels, ensuring that polices are followed up and that the Senior Nurse is informed of any problems or incidents that might arise.
• Maintaining timely and accurate nursing records and ensuring that confidentiality is respected.
• Storing, checking and administering drugs including the intravenous route in accordance with Trust policy and NMC standards.

• The Coronary Care Unit at St Georges Hospital is an 11 bedded unit with a very rapid turnover. We pride ourselves as having one of the best door to PCI times amongst the London Hospitals.
• Are you flexible, hard working, and dynamic? Are you career orientated? Would you like a career pathway?
• Would you like to be a part of the team? We now have a vacancy for a band 5 nurse who can demonstrate an interest in Cardiology. Could that person be you?

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.

Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area;
St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

• Registered Nurse (general)

• Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of research and evidence based practice
• Able to explain the principles of mentoring and assessing junior staff
• Understands the importance of developing self and others
• Demonstrates an understanding of audit
• Ability to take on small research or audit project.

• Demonstrates an enthusiasm for the speciality i.e. CCU and demonstrates the reason why.
• Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to patient care
• Sound verbal and written communication.
• Adaptable and responsive to changing needs
• Ability to use own initiative
• Ability to identify stress in self and others and to take effective action to manage the situation
• Motivated.
• Ability to motivate and lead staff for a shift.

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