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Job summary

Main area
Coronary Care Unit
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
200-7210262-GO-VA
Employer
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Georges Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£44,806 - £53,134 per annum HCAS inc (pro-rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/07/2025 23:59

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St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Staff Nurse

Band 6

Job overview

  • Providing excellent nursing care. As skills and competencies develop taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the ward or department on a regular basis.
  • Supervising and mentoring junior staff.
  • Maintaining personal contact with patients, relatives and carers, being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and ensuring a friendly environment at all times.
  • As skills develop, managing the ward or department in the absence of the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse or Deputy, maintaining safe staffing levels, ensuring that polices are followed up and that the Senior Nurse is informed of any problems or incidents that might arise. 
  • Maintaining timely and accurate nursing records and ensuring that confidentiality is respected.
  • Storing, checking and administering drugs including the intravenous route in accordance with Trust policy and NMC standards.

Main duties of the job

South West London Heart attack centre needs you! 

 

  • The Coronary Care Unit at St Georges Hospital is an 11 bedded unit with a very rapid turnover. We pride ourselves as having one of the best door to PCI times amongst the London Hospitals. 
  • Are you flexible, hard working, and dynamic? Are you career orientated? Would you like a career pathway?
  • Would you like to be a part of the team? We now have a vacancy for a band 5 nurse who can demonstrate an interest in Cardiology. Could that person be you?

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). 

 

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse (general)
Desirable criteria
  • Desirable 12 months post registration experience.

Education & Research

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of research and evidence based practice
  • Able to explain the principles of mentoring and assessing junior staff
  • Understands the importance of developing self and others
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrates an understanding of audit
  • Ability to take on small research or audit project.

General & Personal

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates an enthusiasm for the speciality i.e. CCU and demonstrates the reason why.
  • Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to patient care
  • Sound verbal and written communication.
  • Adaptable and responsive to changing needs
  • Ability to use own initiative
  • Ability to identify stress in self and others and to take effective action to manage the situation
  • Motivated.
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to motivate and lead staff for a shift.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDCapital Nurse, LondonNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerStep into healthDisability Advice Line

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Breege Skeffington
Job title
Ward Manager CCU
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 725 3168

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
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Telephone
07553093677
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