Senior Staff Nurse

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; East Grinstead; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in East Grinstead invites applications for a Senior Staff Nurse (NHS AfC: Band 6). The role covers inpatient care and outpatient dressing clinic, with a focus on paediatric surgical and burns care, supporting a busy team and ensuring high standards of patient safety.

You will demonstrate NMC registration, expert paediatric nursing skills, and experience in plastics/maxillofacial or burns care.

Qualifications

• Experience caring for paediatric surgical patients.
• Experience managing safeguarding issues.
• Experience caring for burns and plastics/maxillofacial surgery patients.

Responsibilities

• Care and preparation of children undergoing plastic surgery or maxillofacial surgery.
• Care and support of children with burns injuries in the outpatient dressing clinic.
• Support of parents whose children are undergoing surgery.
• In charge shifts, ensuring appropriate allocation in relation to skill mix and patient needs.

Skills

IT skills with Microsoft and other IT

Paediatric blood sampling

Education

NMC registration as a paediatric nurse

Plastic surgery/surgical nursing qualification

Job description

Employer Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust Town East Grinstead Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/2026 23:59

Senior Staff Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Welcome to Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and thank you for your interest.

In addition to receiving tertiary referrals from across the South East of England, we have a network of ‘spoke’ sites at district general hospitals enabling our consultants to offer their expertise with routine treatments and consultations as close to patients’ homes as is possible. With the recent addition of video led ‘virtual’ consultations we also enable patients who have some distance to travel to avoid the additional stress and worry of a long journey.

Working at QVH combines the excitement, challenge and career opportunities of many larger organisations with the satisfaction of delivering excellent patient care that really does re-build our patients’ lives.

We also offer attractive benefits such as

• tailored personal development to support career aspirations, including accredited clinical and management development programmes
• flexible working arrangements for a work-life balance that suits you and your needs
• a dedicated reward programme, offering a range of national and local discounts, cashback and tax relief schemes

The Trust is committed to offering a range of flexibleworking options to support employees to balance work and personal commitments, and the delivery of high quality and cost effective services.

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Sustainability

At Queen Victoria Hospital we want to be the first Net Zero Hospital in England, and to achieve that wants every member of staff to be a green champion. The way in which the Trust works has a significant impact on the organisation’s carbon footprint and that of our patients. From the heat, light and power supplies within the hospital to avoiding unnecessary patient journeys, the Trust is empowering all staff to create a sustainable health and care environment for future generations. The Trust expects all staff to reuse and recycle more, to use energy and water efficiently, to walk or cycle to work if you can, and to have a focus on sustainability in the workplace.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated nursing team. The role includes both working within the inpatient area and a busy Outpatient Dressings Clinic. This is a great opportunity to develop wound care skills as well as joining a team who deliver an excellent nurse led service.

Peanut Ward is a regional referral centre for children who sustained minor to moderate burns injuries, as well as other types of trauma. The service also provides excellent care for children needing Maxillo-Facial and Ophthalmic treatment.
The QVH NHS Foundation Trust is an exceptional place to work with the whole organisation focused on the patient and quality care. We have a fantastic international reputation and are proud of our heritage as pioneers of plastic surgery.
With the opportunity and support to develop both professionally and personally we expect our nurses to actively contribute to our continued success. We received “outstanding” for care in our CQC report.
Informal visits are welcomed .

If you do not hold current NMC registration you will automatically not be shortlisted for this role.

Main duties of the job

Caring for pre-op patients, post op patients and dressing clinic patients. Care and preparation of children undergoing plastic surgery or maxillofacial surgery. Care and support of Children with burns injuries in the outpatient dressing clinic. Support of parents whose children are undergoing surgery.

Managing the ward on a day to day basis, supporting junior staff and working alongside management to ensure that safe and quality patient care is provided.

Working for our organisation

Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC. A specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond.

We specialise in conditions of the eyes (corneoplastics), hands, head and neck cancer and skin cancer, reconstructive breast surgery, maxillofacial surgery and prosthetics, providing regional and national services in these areas of clinical expertise.Our world-leading clinical teams also treat more common conditions of the eyes, hands, skin, and teeth for the people of East Grinstead and the surrounding areas. In addition, QVH provides a minor injuries unit, expert therapies, a sleep service, and a growing portfolio of community-based services.Patients consistently rate QVH amongst the top hospitals in the country for quality of care.

Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Care and preparation of children undergoing plastic surgery or maxillofacial surgery. Care and support of Children with burns injuries in the outpatient dressing clinic. Support of parents whose children are undergoing surgery.

In charge shifts, ensuring the appropriate allocation in relation to skill mix and patient needs, escalating concerns in real time to management and working together to formulate plans to overcome difficulties.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience caring for paediatric surgical patients
• Experience managing safeguarding issue
• Experience caring for burns and plastics/maxillofacial surgery patients

Qualifications

• NMC registration as a paediatric nurse
• Plastic surgery/surgical nursing qualification

Skills

• IT skills with microsoft and other computer systems
• Paediatric blood sampling

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.