Junior Sister/Charge Nurse

Job summary

We are really excited about the Sister roles that have been developed for SACU within our Surgical Directorate and Planned Care Division. As part of our ambitious agenda and on-going development of the service the post holders will be pivotal ion support exciting changes in the service with implementation of the new ACP roles. We are seeking to appoint exceptional leaders into the sister role on SACU at St Helier Hospital.

Are you a compassionate nurse? Are you enthusiastic, highly motivated, experienced and passionate about care? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for an outstanding and committed Sister (band 6) to support SACU within St Helier Hospital.

The successful candidate will be able to drive the clinical quality agenda; ensuring patients receive an outstanding experience within our care. We believe our senior nurses need to be pragmatic and ready to embrace change.

Surgical Ambulatory care unit strives to deliver high quality ambulatory surgical assessment service for all appropriate adult emergency general surgical and urological patients.We have a clear and ambitious vision to provide outstanding patient care and to become the best; we would like you to be part of this success.

Main duties of the job

Our successful candidate will be someone who is highly engaged, with a desire to lead from the bedside and to set the tone for exceptional and high quality nursing care. We are looking for an experienced and ambitious nurse, with an ability to demonstrate good understanding of surgical care, who is able to lead, motivate and inspire and who is able to champion compassionate, high quality and dignified patient care.

If providing excellent nursing care, getting the basics right are important to you and you have a strong desire to support and develop others to become excellent at what they do, and if making a difference and doing the right thing is fundamental to you, we would love to hear from you to discuss this exciting opportunity further.

About us

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.