Day Surgery Unit Scrub Senior Staff Nurse - Band 6

Job summary

A fantastic opportunity has emerged for an experienced nurse to join our friendly team at our newly developed 23 hour Day Surgery Unit. We are looking for someone with surgical experience who is motivated, enthusiastic and dynamic.

You will regularly take charge of the unit and as an effective leader and role model you will work flexibly as a member of the team and support the team leaders, to ensure that standards are maintained, evaluated and where necessary improved. You will be an effective role model and be involved in helpingto develop all aspects of the unit in line with the Trusts visions and future plans. Specialist surgery provides an exciting nursing challenge and we can promise you a varied and in depth role which will give you an opportunity to broaden and advance your expertise in a busy but supportive environment.

Main duties of the job

All applicants must be a Registered Nurse, with extensive post registration experience at Band 5/6, Gynaecology/Urology/ENT/General Surgery scrub competent or above within the Surgical Field. All applicants will be required to complete a presentation at interview and question to be given in advance to the shortlisted candidates. You must be flexible, possess excellent communication and organizational skills. If you are looking to develop your managerial, clinical and decision making skills we would love to hear from you.

We aim to develop a multi-skilled workforce therefore you will also have the opportunity to rotate in other specialist roles such as Scrub or Recovery. We are committed to ensuring that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation or is disadvantaged by requirements that cannot be justified.

Post - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday predominately)

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