Senior Staff Nurse - GI Unit

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated Senior Staff Nurse to join their Gastrointestinal unit. This role involves delivering high-quality patient care, administrative duties, and supporting a highly skilled nursing team. The successful candidate will lead by example and must possess strong leadership and clinical skills, ensuring that the highest standard of care is upheld.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Experienced and competent in managing patients within the specialty.
• Ability to teach/assess/supervise others in a clinical setting.
• Able to demonstrate leadership through coaching and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Manage a group of patients within the GI unit as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Administer prescribed medications and monitor urgent emergencies.
• Lead recruitment and performance management within the nursing team.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Patient Care

Clinical Assessment

Time Management

Negotiation

Education

BSC/1st degree (health related)

Mentorship/Teaching Qualification

Post registration qualification in speciality

Job description

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London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

02.07.2025

Expiry Date:

16.08.2025

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Job overview

Are you a natural leader? Do you enjoy a challenge? Are you someone who is enthusiastic, approachable, and likes to lead by example?

An exciting opportunity has arisen within GI unit, for a Senior Staff Nurse position.

We currently have x1 Secondment post for 12 months.

The GI Unit is a 56 bedded department comprised of two wards, Page & Northumberland. The successful candidate will work alongside the nursing team, with the support of the Ward Sisters and senior leadership team in ensuring the highest standard of care is delivered to all our patients.

We aim to provide outstanding and specialised care to our Gastrointestinal Surgical patients, and we are looking for a motivated, friendly, hardworking, experienced senior nurse to join our highly skilled team.

Closing date: 06th July 2025

Main duties of the job

You will be offered time to complete administrative duties including, complex rostering, performance managing and supporting the team. Time will be allocated allowing you to supervise, support and complete PDRs and one to ones with your staff, competing clinical audits and feeding back to the team.

You will also be expected to be involved with the recruitment and selection process and full training will be offered. You will also be expected to look into incidents and learning that may arise from these.

If you are ready for an exciting new challenge, we look forward to hearing from you.

The successfulcandidate will have strong leadership and communication skills and will be able to demonstrate his/her abilities to inspire others.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Independently manage a group of patients within the speciality whilst
working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised andpersonalised direct patient care

Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment,planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includeshistory taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed
diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.

Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication
including transfusion of blood and blood products

Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the
speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to leadothers to do the same.

Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient
orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within
the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.

Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient
experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and
doctrines.

Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions
relating to their treatment and management.

Please see attached Job description for full details.

Person specification

Values and Behaviour

• Values and behaviour

Qualifications/ Education

• BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
• Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
• Mentorship/Teaching Qualification
• Post registration qualification in or demonstrate relevant experience and competence (appropriate area of speciality)
• Sign off Mentorship

Professional/ Statutory Registration

• RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality
• Previous post registration experience within the relevant specialty
• Experienced and competent in the management of patients within the speciality
• Experience of teaching/assessing/ supervising others in a clinical setting.
• Supervision of junior staff
• Experiencing of co-ordinating a shift

Skills/Knowledge/ Ability

• Demonstrates specialist expertise underpinned by theory acquired through CPD
• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues. Knowledge of evidence based practice
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives.
• In depth drugs knowledge
• Ability to administer prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products
• Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
• An understanding of audit and research based nursing practice.
• An understanding of resource management
• Good communication skills and ability to deal with sensitive information. To include dealing with distressed relatives, care of terminally ill & other challenging situations
• Demonstrates ability to influence and negotiate with others. Ability to organise and plan own time and that of junior staff and learners.
• Demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management and how this effects their role and the department
• You will be able decide how best to achieve expected results, whilst acting within clearly defined policies/ procedures and codes of conduct.

Additional Information

• Able and willing to work flexible shift patterns, internal rotation to day and night duty and unsocial hours, according to service needs

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.