Job overview

To support and deputise for the Ward Sister/Charge  Nurse to ensure the provision of excellent nursing care and the effective management of staff and other resources. To carry out the day-to-day management and coordination of the ward/department. To ensure that there are education and training  opportunities for all staff, including pre and post registration students. Act as an advocate for child and family. Provide unsupervised nursing care

Main duties of the job

Do you possess a  caring and sensitive approach to the needs of patient / parents / guardians / relatives and other staff? And an unending  motivation and enthusiasm for acute and critical care services?

St George’s University Hospital is a renowned centre of excellence and a nationally recognised Trauma Centre. We provide specialist care and treatment for children and young people across the South East.

St George's PICU is a busy dynamic unit providing care for children with a variety of health care needs. Specialities include oncology, trauma, paediatric surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, paediatric infectious diseases and paediatric medicine. 

We are looking for passionate, enthusiastic and experienced children’s nurses committed to excellent patient experience to join our team. 

The PICU Senior Staff Nurse  role  is about  motivating and   leading  your staff . It is also about  clinical  excellence.  St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust will provide an exciting and excellent environment in which to meet these goals.

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.