Clinical Nurse Specialist Neuro ICU (adult)

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 8a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St George's Hospital. We are looking for candidates who are clinical experts in neurosciences intensive care and have a passion for ensuring high standards of care for this group of patients.

Main duties of the job

• Providing excellent individualised specialist nursing care to critically ill patients.
• To act as the shift leader and to work clinically as required.
• To participate in the education, training & professional development of staff individually as part of the IPR process.
• Lead/participate in audit and research pertinent to critical care.
• To act as a specialist information resource for all staff, inside and outside the unit, including medical staff new to the speciality regarding the care and treatment of critically ill patients.
• To provide follow-up services to patients requiring specialist input following discharge from NICU.
• Responsibility for holding the Adult ICU Senior Nurse bleep providing off site out of hours support when on call. Managing beds and staffing within normal working hours during the on call period. The off site on call period reimbursed with normal agenda for change terms.
• Strategic development of clinical service, to meet the future requirements of the critical care directorate.

About us

With nearly9,000 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.