Outpatient Staff Nurse - Band 5 (Maternity Cover)

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospital seeks an Outpatient Staff Nurse (Band 5) for maternity cover in London. This role involves maintaining high standards of patient care, ensuring accurate documentation, and working within a collaborative team environment. Ideal candidates are registered nurses with strong clinical skills and a commitment to professional standards.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with excellent clinical skills.
• Sound knowledge of current nursing issues and developments.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Maintain confidentiality surrounding patient admission and treatment.
• Provide excellent, evidence-based nursing care for patients.
• Participate in effective communication among multidisciplinary team members.

Skills

Clinical skills

Organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Education

Registered Nurse

Job description

Go back The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth

Outpatient Staff Nurse - Band 5 (Maternity Cover)

The closing date is 20 July 2025

The Outpatient Department is often a patients first experience of the hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. We aim to deliver first class standards of care where the patient is at the heat of every decision. We have a good team who strive to deliver our vision and values every day.

Main duties of the job

The department has 25 consulting rooms with equipment specific to the various specialties we support and is in spacious, comfortable surroundings. We offer all staff the opportunity to support various specialty clinics and we have a minor procedure room where we undertake some further procedures under local anaesthetic.

About us

The department offers both pre and post-operative appointments and a variety of other medical and general specialties. Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line, minutes from Central London. Uniquely, all profits fund our onsite Hospice, St Johns.

Job responsibilities

• To maintain confidentiality surrounding patient admission and treatment at all times.
• To ensure documentation is completed accurately and within agreed timescales using Hospital approved documentation, in line with NMC and Hospital guidelines.
• To have knowledge of and adhere to ward and Hospital policy and professional standards. To ensure that team members do likewise.
• To ensure the provision of excellent, evidence-based nursing care for patients.
• Ensure that each patient is assessed, and that their care is planned, implemented and evaluated, and that this is accurately documented.
• Participate in effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team, other hospital departments, relatives and visitors.
• Ensure quality care is given, by being familiar with agreed standards of care and to inform seniors, if the required standard cannot be reached.

Person Specification

Experience

• Registered Nurse
• Excellent clinical skills
• Professional commitment and self-awareness
• Motivate self and others
• Sound knowledge of current issues in nursing, developments
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Good interpersonal skills

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.

The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth