St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Staff Nurse - Caesar Hawkins maternity cover

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Job summary

Senior Staff Nurse - fixed term secondment to cover maternity leave.

  • Do you have experience in caring for patients with respiratory conditions? Do you have an interest in mentoring students and junior staff?
  • Are you looking to develop your ward management skills?
  • Then our senior staff nurse post secondment may be what you are looking for.
  • Caesar Hawkins is a 23 bed acute respiratory ward caring for level 1 and 2 patients with centralised monitoring.
  • Nurses will gain experience in caring for patients with non-invasive ventilation, CPAP, Optiflow and Tracheostomies.

We offer

o An environment that will enable you to develop and broaden your nursing portfolio including caring for patients with a variety of medical conditions and diabetes.

o Support in your career development and training.

o Opportunities to develop your management and clinical skills including mentorship, nurse in charge competencies, diabetes and care of the acutely unwell patient modules.

o Opportunities to grow your teaching and mentoring skills with our students, newly qualified nurses and HCA's - supported by our team of practice educators.

We offer outstanding career progression opportunities - from Nursing management, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Practice educator and Nurse practitioner roles. Where do you see yourself?

Main duties of the job

  • To support and deputise for the Ward Manager and Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to ensure the provision of outstanding nursing care and the effective management of staff and other resources.
  • To carry out the day-to-day management and co-ordination of the ward or department.
  • To ensure that there are education and training opportunities for all staff, including pre and post registration students.
  • To act as a source of specialist information for staff, patients and visitors.

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, totaling 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.

Details

Date posted

02 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£42,471 to £50,364 a year per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

9 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-6512332-MA-SC

Job locations

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

  • RN (general)
  • Mentorship or willing to undertake

Experience

Essential

  • Relevant specialist course or equivalent experience / competency.
  • Demonstrates enthusiasm for the speciality
  • Experience as nurse in charge
Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

  • RN (general)
  • Mentorship or willing to undertake

Experience

Essential

  • Relevant specialist course or equivalent experience / competency.
  • Demonstrates enthusiasm for the speciality
  • Experience as nurse in charge

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT


Employer's website

https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT


Employer's website

https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Ward Manager

Cynthia Edokpayi

Cynthia.Edokpayi@stgeorges.nhs.uk

02087252020

Details

Date posted

02 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£42,471 to £50,364 a year per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

9 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-6512332-MA-SC

Job locations

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT


Supporting documents

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