Job overview

• Are you a motivated, enthusiastic and proactive nurse with a passion for Haematology? We are looking for a Junior Sister to join our friendly and fast paced Haematology Day Unit team. 
• The candidate will have haematology experience, a completed SACT UKONS passport and venepuncture and cannulation skills.
• You will be working directly with the Senior Sister and overseeing, leading and problem solving any issues that arise on the day unit.
• The post holder will be expected to provide and maintain high standards of care to our patients, be able to work autonomously as well as part of a cohesive team, have excellent communication skills and work within the multidisciplinary team.
• You will need to demonstrate the ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care to this highly specialist group of patients.
• The successful applicant must be able to organise and prioritise their own work load, to work within an environment that requires flexibility and the need to work under pressure.

Main duties of the job

• Delivery of SACT and supportive treatments to patients on Haematology Day Unit.
• Involvement in audits, rostering and budgetary management.
• Teaching and mentoring junior members of staff.
• Deputising for Senior Sister.

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.