PICU Senior Staff Nurse

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a passionate PICU Senior Staff Nurse to provide excellent nursing care and lead a dedicated team. This role involves managing the day-to-day operations and ensuring educational opportunities for both staff and students in a fast-paced critical care environment.

Qualifications

• Registered Children's nurse or equivalent.
• Two years post-qualification experience with at least 6 months in Paediatric Intensive Care.
• Completion of preceptorship programme.

Responsibilities

• Support and deputise for the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse.
• Provide day-to-day management and coordination of the ward.
• Advocate for child and family.

Skills

Communication Skills

Leadership Skills

Education

Registered Children's Nurse

Paediatric Intensive Care Course

Clinical Leadership Course

Practice Assessor Qualification

Job description

Go back St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

PICU Senior Staff Nurse

The closing date is 29 June 2025

To support and deputise for the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse to ensure the provision of excellent nursing care and the effective management of staff and other resources. To carry out the day-to-day management and coordination of the ward/department. To ensure that there are education and training opportunities for all staff, including pre and post registration students. Act as an advocate for child and family. Provide unsupervised nursing care

Main duties of the job

Do you possess a caring and sensitive approach to the needs of patient / parents / guardians / relatives and other staff? And an unending motivation and enthusiasm for acute and critical care services?

St George's University Hospital is a renowned centre of excellence and a nationally recognised Trauma Centre. We provide specialist care and treatment for children and young people across the South East.St George's PICU is a busy dynamic unit providing care for children with a variety of health care needs. Specialities include oncology, trauma, paediatric surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, paediatric infectious diseases and paediatric medicine.We are looking for passionate, enthusiastic and experienced children's nurses committed to excellent patient experience to join our team.

The PICU Senior Staff Nurse role is about motivating and leading your staff . It is also about clinical excellence. St George's Healthcare NHS Trust will provide an exciting and excellent environment in which to meet these goals.

About us

With nearly9,000 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 - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - 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.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the proposed role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Registered Children's nurse or equivalent
• Holds paediatric intensive care course/modules or equivalent post-registration ICU course.
• Clinical Leadership Course/skills
• Completion of preceptorship programme.
• Practice Assessor or Practice Supervisor Qualification

Experience

• Two years post-qualification experience with at least 6 months in Paediatric Intensive Care within the last year.
• Demonstrates experience in assessment, care planning and evaluation.
• Practice Accessor or Practice Supervisor Qualification.
• Cannulation and Venepuncture

Skills

• Demonstrate sound written numeric and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrate ability to supervise and assess more junior staff and students.
• Demonstrate leadership skills in support

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.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust