Job overview

• An exciting opportunity has emerged for highly motivated registered adult nurses to join our St Georges University Trust Neuro and Amputee Rehabilitation Team as a Band 5 Nurse on Gwynne Holford Ward.
• Are you interested in becoming a practitioner with a specialist interest in stroke and Neuro Rehab care and management?
• Do you want to develop your practical skills and develop knowledge within this area? 
• We will invest in your development, education and learning to increase your knowledge of managing  ongoing neuro rehabilitation.
• You will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and specialist skills and support patients through their stroke pathway, post interventional treatments, as well as supporting patients in the rehabilitation and discharge.
• The opportunity of becoming an integral member of the  Neuro and Amputee rehabilitation team, you do not need neuro rehabilitation experience, just the motivation and drive to join a dynamic team.
• You will be an integral part of a highly motivated team who will help support you to develop the competence and confidence you need as an effective, independent healthcare professional.

Main duties of the job

Our Neuro and Amputee Rehabilitation department (Gwynne Holford Ward) is based in Queen Mary's Hospital. 

Your main duties will include:

• Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care, utilising research findings as appropriate.
• Taking personal responsibility for treating all patients with TRUST values to their individual needs and always maintaining confidentiality.
• To act as a proactive member of the ward team to ensure a high and safe standard of patient care.
• Ensuring that nursing procedures are carried out in accordance with St George’s Healthcare policy taking appropriate action in emergency situations.
• Setting, monitoring and maintaining excellent standards of nursing care in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
• Communicating with and assisting the multidisciplinary team to promote excellence in the delivery of patient care.
• 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.
• To prioritise own workload and that of other staff ensuring that the ward or department is managed effectively.
• To act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses, Midwives and Heath Visitors and to be accountable for own clinical practice and professional actions at all times.
• Ensure continued and effective registration with the NMC.

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.