Band 5 Staff Nurse - James Hope Ward

Job summary

• Providing excellent nursing care.
• Develop cardiac skills and competencies, taking charge of the unit and actively participate in and contributing to the management of the ward or department on a regular basis. Supervising and mentoring students and junior staff.
• If you are looking to work in a friendly, supportive environment and want to develop your clinical and leadership skills for caring cardiology patients, this is the job for you!
• We have a vacancy for a Full Time Staff Nurse (Band 5).
• You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team on this Nurse Led Unit working closely with Catheter Labs and Nurse Practitioners.
• In return, you will be provided with a Trust and local induction to the systems with good support from our Practice Educator and Ward Mentor to enrich your cardiology skills and experience.
• Please let us know if you would like to come for an informal visit or to find out more information. Contact: Almira Pagco, Senior Sister, James Hope Ward 020 8725 1170 or Matron Melanie Mota, 020 8672 1255 bleep 6285.

Main duties of the job

• You will be working in rotation between day case unit James Hope Ward and elective overnight Charles Pumphrey Unit that run five (5) days cardiology procedure service.
• James Hope Ward has 3 bays of 3 trolleys that operates from 07:30 to 19:30 Monday to Friday.
• Charles Pumphrey Unit consists of 7 beds for overnight stay elective patients and is open from Monday 7:30 to Saturday 15:00.
• Both are challenging and fast paced unit working to meet the increasing demands on St. Georges Cardiology service as a regional tertiary center delivering high quality care.

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.