Senior Staff Nurse – Overnight Intensive Recovery

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Staff Nurse for their Overnight Intensive Recovery unit. Experience in critical care is essential as the role involves managing postoperative patients requiring specialized support. The successful candidate will benefit from robust professional development opportunities within a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Registered Adult Nurse on the NMC register.
• Evidence of experience in Critical Care nursing.
• Ability to teach and assess junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty.
• Administer prescribed medication and lead emergency response.
• Provide leadership and support for effective patient care.

Skills

Critical Care Nursing

Advanced cardiac Nursing

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Education

BSc/1st degree (health related)

Mentorship/Teaching Qualification

Job description

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Senior Staff Nurse – Overnight Intensive Recovery, London

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

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Other

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Posted:

29.06.2025

Expiry Date:

13.08.2025

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Job overview

Our unit is looking for you! Do you want to work in a fast-paced, dynamic clinical environment?

Would you like to develop specialist surgical intensive care and pathway-based high dependency nursing skills and knowledge? Do you like to be challenged and think autonomously? If so, we have vacancies for band 6s on our OIR (Overnight Intensive Recovery).

OIR is an 11-bedded unit that manages level two to three patients postoperatively. These patients include elective cardiac, gastrointestinal, general surgical, and vascular. They require highly specialized care, including invasive and non-invasive ventilation, pacing, vasopressor and inotropic support, and advanced monitoring, including spinal drains, intra-aortic balloon pumps, and advanced hemodynamic monitoring.

What our staff say about us..

“We are a friendly team and strive to provide a high standard of care for all our patients”

‘’Lots of opportunities for professional development have been provided”

“OIR offers a great opportunity to learn and the team work is amazing”

Closing date: 6th July 2025 Midnight

Interview date: 15th July 2025

Main duties of the job

We offer a personalised induction programme with supervision and support from our dedicated practice development team and one-to-one support from the senior nursing team.

You will have practical and academic support to advance your knowledge and skills in caring for patients requiring invasive and non-invasive ventilation, pacing, vasopressor and inotropic support, advanced monitoring including spinal drains, intra-aortic balloon pumps, and advanced hemodynamic monitoring. You will also be offered additional courses to advance your leadership and clinical skills to enable you to be the best you can be.

We are looking for nurses with a willingness to learn, who thrive under pressure, and who have the ability to adapt and refine their skills according to the demands of the unit.

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.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty while working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.
• Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care. This includes history 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 lead others to do the same.
• Ensure that patients receive high-quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs, and doctrines.
• To provide leadership, support, and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning, delivery, and evaluation of individualised care.
• Is wholly accountable for his/her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve his/her knowledge and professional competence.
• Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advanced clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursing procedures in the area.
• Ensure that sensitive patient records are stored appropriately.
• Ensure staff take precautions to minimise the risk of cross-infection in relation to the safe disposal of body fluids (including blood).
• To be an effective communicator with patients/carers/families regarding disease treatment and management.
• Facilitate a high-quality, cost-effective specialist service through monitoring and audit and other quality initiatives agreed upon by the Trust.
• Identify and intervene where circumstances contribute to an unsafe environment for patients and staff. To bring instances to the attention of the Sister/Charge Nurse for the area.
• Ensure that the learning environment and specialist training are appropriate for both pre- and post-registration learners and participate in the development of appropriate programmes.
• Contribute to the Trust’s clinical supervision programme for staff.
• To assist the Sister/Charge Nurse in developing a culture that is challenging, stimulating, rewarding, and supportive.
• To act as mentor/assessor to unqualified staff and to provide education, advice, and support to a team of nurses.
• Utilise research findings in the delivery of specialist patient care, developing new ways of working, and disseminating relevant information to staff.
• Provide a leadership role model and demonstrate specialist knowledge and high standards of clinical practice, and provide support or advice when necessary.
• Maintain accurate records of the clinical service and ensure that confidentiality of information is adhered to.
• Organise own work and manage own caseload and practice, identifying and maintaining supportive networks for self and other staff members.
• Take an active role in risk assessment, supporting implementation of strategies to minimise risk. Ensuring incidents and near misses are reported through promoting a no-blame culture.
• To create an environment that fosters good communication between patient and health care professionals, that meets individual’s needs.

Please note to be considered for this vacancy you must have completed a critical care course and either have your results or be waiting for your results to be processed.

Should you be successful at interview and you are unable to provide the recruiting manager with confirmation of a successfully competed critical care course within 2 months of being interviewed, then your offer will be withdrawn

Person specification

Qualification/Education

• BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
• Evidence (Certificate/Record) of Mentorship/Teaching Qualification
• Post registration qualification in or demonstrate relevant experience and competence Critical Care Nursing, High Dependency Nursing or Advanced cardiac Nursing

Professional/ Statutory Registration

• Registered Adult Nurse on the NMC register

Experience

• Evidence of experience and competence in the care and management of patients in Critical Care
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of teaching/assessing/ supervising junior staff/students in a clinical setting
• Experience of co-ordinating a shift

Skills/knowledge/Ability

• Evidence of up-to-date knowledge of current clinical evidence-based practice and professional issues
• Evidence of being able to ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives
• Evidence (Certificate/Record) of leadership skills
• Good communication skills and ability to deal with sensitive information including dealing with challenging situations
• Demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management and how this effects their role and the department
• Able to provide evidence ofComputer Skills including ability to use Electronic Patient Records, training completed
• An understanding of audit and research-based nursing practice

Specific Speciality Criteria

• Care and management of chest drains and pacemakers
• Able to demonstrate competence in the management of patients post-cardiac surgery level 2 to 3 care

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.