Senior Staff Nurse - Marnham ASHU

Job summary

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, includingpre and post registration students. To act as a source of specialist information for staff, patients and visitors

Main duties of the job

Do you have experience in caring for senior health patients? Do you have an interest in mentoring students and junior staff? Do you have nurse in charge experience on day and night shifts? Then our senior staff nurse secondmentmay be what you are looking for.

Marnham ASHU is a 32 bedded ward which specialises in short term admission for acute senior health patients with an average length of stay of 10 days or less.

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

Support in your career development and training.

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

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

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.