Senior Staff Nurse

Job summary

To support and deputise for the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse to ensure theprovision 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 ward/department. To take charge of the ward on a regular basis and manage a cohort of staff on the ward with minimal supervision. To ensure that there are education and training opportunities for all staff, including pre and post registratio n students and /or providing specialist knowledge if working in a clinical area where a post registration course is essential eg., critical care setting.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has come for an experienced registered staff nurse to join our senior team in one of our surgical wards. Florence Nightingale Ward is a 22 bedded ward that specialises in complex ENT and maxillofacial surgery. We are also the regional centre for Head and Neck cancer and the nominated ward for surgical tracheostomy care. Alongside this we manage patients with complex feeding needs due to head & neck surgical conditions.

Our patient admission routes vary between emergency admissions, transfers from the General Intensive Care Unit and other hospitals and planned major elective surgery. The patients stay will vary from an overnight stay to longer admission with complex needs and life-changing outcomes.

We are looking for a senior staff nurse to provide nursing leadership and promote best practice. Applicants should be committed to improving quality and the patients' experience with a demonstrable evidence of this at ward or specialist level.

Professional development

There is a wide range of training and development opportunities accessible to all staff both in house and via external organisations.

The Trust has an excellent reputation for offering specialist courses and facilitating the return to practice of nurses and midwives.

Improving working lives

The Trust supports initiatives that improve the work life balance of staff including flexible working, study, paternity, adoption and carers leave.

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.