Staff Nurse- Acute Medical & Senior Health

Job summary

Band 5 Nurses - Acute Medical Wards & Senior Health

Do you want to give outstanding care every time? Do you want to feel proud of where you work? If you want to consistently deliver the fundamentals of patient care and ensure that improvements, we make are sustained in the long term, then we want to work with you.

We have full time opportunities for Registered Nurses to join us in the Acute Medical Division & Senior Health on the following wards:

Main duties of the job

Rodney Smith - 28 bed acute medical ward specialising in diabetes & endocrine disorders. We nurse patients when surgical intervention is required so you will gain some exposure to pre and post-surgical care. We also take step down patients from ITU.

McEntee - an 18 bedded purpose-built medical diseases unit that specialises in the care of patients with transmissible diseases including the management of patients with HIV/AIDS & TB. You will gain experience in caring for patients with complex needs who can be acutely unwell.

Cavell - 28 bedded short stay AMU providing care for patients with a variety of acute medical conditions.

Heberden is a newly refurbished 24 bedded Senior Health Ward, specialising in caring for patients with Dementia, Delirium, Palliative care needs and acute medical conditions. We are well known for our commitment to delivering and improving excellent quality care to older people.

Dalby is a 22 bedded newly refurbished ward specialising in older patients requiring acute medical admission. We have experience in caring for patients with Dementia, Delirium.

Mary Seacole is a 42 bedded ward specialising in Senior Health / Rehabilitation. It's based at Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton - a newly built community hospital offering rehabilitation services.

Amyand is a 32 bedded acute short stay medical ward. Working very close to the main Acute Medical Unit (AMU). Renovated in July 2023.This is a fast pace environment covering a variety of medical conditions.

About us

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.