Staff Nurse - Rodney Smith - Endocrinology

Job summary

Do you want to give outstanding care every time? Do you want to feel really 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 on the Rodney Smith - a 28 bedded ward caring for medical patients with a focus on diabetes care.

Whether you are a newly qualified or an experienced nurse - this is a chance to develop your skills as part of a highly capable team where you're guaranteed opportunities to learn how to care for patients requiring a variety of nursing interventions. You will be supported by our practice educators and senior nurses to help you develop

We offer preceptorship, mentorship, rotations and professional development to ensure you get the very best from your time with us. With a variety of career progression opportunities - from Clinical Ward Manager, Practice Educator, Matron, Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist roles. Where do you see yourself?

Main duties of the job

• Plan the delivery of patient care and take responsibility for implementing and evaluating the care provided.
• Use of available electronic systems to provide care and safety for our patients.
• To provide advice and education to patients, staff and learners within the directorate as required.
• Be able to prioritise their own workload and of those working with them such as learners and Healthcare Assistants
• To develop communication networks across specialities and throughout the multidisciplinary team. -
• Fostering a mentoring environment in line with our teaching hospital.
• Carry out nursing care to the highest possible standard according to Trust Policies and and Clinical Guidelines.
• To administer patient medication according to Trust Policy, this includes the administrationof intravenous medication.

About us

St George's

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.