Senior Staff Nurse Band 6

St George's University Hospitals; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading teaching hospital in the UK is seeking a Senior Staff Nurse for a busy cardiology ward to provide leadership and ensure excellent patient care. This role involves managing staff, coordinating daily operations, and facilitating training opportunities. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership and clinical skills. Join a dedicated team committed to delivering exceptional healthcare.

Qualifications

• Must have excellent leadership skills and ability to manage staff effectively.
• Experience in cardiology or similar clinical areas is beneficial.
• Registered Nurse with a valid nursing credential.

Responsibilities

• Support and deputize for the Ward Sister.
• Co-ordinate day-to-day management of the ward.
• Provide education and training opportunities for all staff.

Skills

Leadership skills

Excellent communication

Patient care

Team collaboration

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Responsibilities

• To support and deputise for the Ward Sister to ensure the provision of excellent nursing care and the effective management of staff and other resources.
• To co‑ordinate the day‑to‑day management of the ward/department and ensure excellent communication is maintained.
• To ensure that there are education and training opportunities for all staff, including pre and post registration students and /or providing specialist knowledge if working in a clinical area where a post registration course is essential.

About the Ward and the Trust

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country's leading teaching hospitals with an international reputation for patient care, education and research. Belgrave Ward is a very busy general cardiology ward and is part of the newly formed Cardiology Clinical Academic Group to further developments in Cardiology.

We now have a permanent position for a Senior Staff Nurse (band 6) to provide day to day leadership of this busy 24 bedded cardiology ward.

Belgrave Ward is a dynamic ward that is changing with the increasing demands on the St George's Cardiology service, a regional tertiary centre delivering high quality care.

You will be expected to work as an excellent role model providing excellent patient care as you develop your excellent clinical skills and leadership. You will be part of multi‑disciplinary team working together to provide quality service provision, excellent clinical management and safe and effective discharge processes.

So if you are ambitious and have excellent leadership skills and can make a real difference for caring for cardiology patients this is the job for you.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflect these.

Working for our organisation

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 - 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.