Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Emergency Department
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 196-NM12929
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Paediatric ED St Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 p.a inc. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/07/2025
Employer heading

Senior Staff Nurse - Paediatric A&E
Band 6
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are looking for experienced and dynamic paediatric emergency nurses to join our dedicated team.
The role involves co-ordinating and leading a shift on a regular basis. The role also involves providing professional and inspirational leadership to ensure that patients and their families receive high quality clinical care and an excellent patient experience.
If you have a desire to enhance your acute emergency and minor injury skills, look no further. We believe in developing our staff, providing access to APLS training, a paediatric ED course as well as other professional development.
Please note this role will require you to work days, nights and weekends. You will be given notice of your shifts to enable you to plan your work and home life.
Closing date: 15th June 2025
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning and provision of specialist nursing advice and carries out specialist nursing procedures. The post holder will provide clinical supervision to other staff, students and may undertake research, lead clinical audits in own specialist area.
Ensuring the safety and well being of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centred care principles.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of duties and responsibilities for each criteria please see the attached Job Description.
- Clinical and Patient Care
- Quality
- Education and Leadership
- Research and Development
- Management and Leadership
- Compliance and Governance
- Communication
Person specification
Qualifications/ Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality
- Post registration qualification in (appropriate area of speciality)
- Mentorship/Teaching Qualification
- Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
Additional Information
Essential criteria
- Able and willing to work flexible shift patterns, internal rotation to day and night duty and unsocial hours, according to service needs
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues. Knowledge of evidence based practice.
- Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
- Good communication skills and ability to deal with sensitive information. To include dealing with distressed relatives, care of terminally ill & other challenging situations
- Demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management and how this effects their role and the department
- Demonstrates ability to influence and negotiate with others. Ability to organise and plan own time and that of junior staff and learners.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous post registration experience within the relevant specialty
- Experiencing of co-ordinating a shift
- Supervision of junior staff
- Experienced and competent in the management of patients within the speciality
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Caroline McKenna
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0207188 7188
- Additional information
Marina [email protected]
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