Senior Staff Nurse-Caesar Hawkins

Job summary

Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse - Respiratory Medicine

Do you have experience in caring for patients with respiratory medical conditions? Do you have an interest in mentoring students and junior staff? Are you looking to develop your ward management skills? Then our senior staff nurse role may be what you are looking for.

Main duties of the job

Caesar Hawkins - 23 bed respiratory/ acute medicine ward caring for a wide range of patients with respiratory disorders who also have a wide range of other complex comorbidities . You will gain experience in caring for patients with non-invasive ventilation, CPAP, Optiflow, Tracheostomies and laryngectomies. We work very close with Acute dependency unit in Richmond ward, as well as the Intensive Care Units, as this is where most of our patients are transferred from. This is a fast-paced environment that will provide you with all of your advanced acute medicine nursing skills and more.

Our team consists of specialist physiotherapists who are on hand to teach and progress your clinical skills with our airway and acute T2RF patients. We also have a consultant led ward round every day to promote excellent MDT working/ planning. In addition, we have a discharge coordinator and practice educator who are available to support and teach.

Finally, many of our staff have progressed into variety of career opportunities, such as, Clinical Ward Manager, Practice Educator, Matron, Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist roles. Where do you see yourself?

About us

With nearly 9,000 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, totaling 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.