Endoscopy Senior Staff Nurse

Job summary

• Our Staff work in teams and we are committed to keeping our focus on giving outstanding care every time to our patients.
• St George's Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the country's leading teaching hospitals with an international reputation for patient care, education and research.
• We believe in investing in our team and offer training opportunities locally and externally to support you to progress in your career.
• We have an international reputation for providing the best practice and we are one of the three national training centres.
• The unit houses the Bowel Cancer Screening Centre and we provide care for patients undergoing therapeutic GI endoscopy and bronchoscopy.

Main duties of the job

• We are looking for an enthusiastic Band 6 Endoscopy Senior Staff Nurse who is interested in gaining further leadership and management skills in this innovative and busy specialities.
• Successful post holder will already possess excellent communication skills and enjoy working in a busy and dedicated team.
• You need to be RN with a minimum of 1 year endoscopy clinical experience.
• This position will require someone that is confident in their knowledge and delivery of excellence in every aspect of patients care.
• To support and deputise Endoscopy Nurse Manager to ensure the provision of excellent nursing care and the effective management of staff and other resources.
• Also to carry out the day-to day management and co-ordination of the Endoscopy unit.
• To ensure that there are education and training opportunities for all staff.

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.