Senior Staff Nurse

Job summary

The Regional Neurology Unit specialises in the care of patients who have a neurological condition, which also includes patients who have had a traumatic brain injury. It is a tertiary regional unit and looks after patients with complex neurological conditions from across South West London and Surrey.

As a Senior Staff Nurse based in a Neurology Ward, you will support the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse to ensure the provision of excellent nursing care and effective management of staff and resources. Ability to use a problem-solving approach and develop your leadership skills. We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflect these.

Main duties of the job

St. George's University Hospital NHS Trust is one of the UK's largest healthcare organisations and has recently integrated with Community Services Wandsworth. The Trust shares its main hospital site in south west London with St George's University of London, and is linked to Kingston Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences. St George's has an established national and international reputation as a leading hospital for specialist care including neurosciences, cardiac care, stroke and cancer.

As a Senior Staff Nurse based on the neurology ward you will support the Ward Sister/ Charge Nurse to ensure the provision of excellent nursing care and effective safe management of staff and resources.

This is a varied, challenging, and exciting role which encourages you to use a problem-solving approach and develop your leadership skills.

You should be a registered general nurse with at least two years of experience in an acute hospital setting with at least one year acute neurology experience.

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.