Clinic Nurse Band 5

Job summary

Diabetes and Endocrine Service St George's University Hospital NHS Trust

37.5 hours Permanent Post

Band 5 Registered Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a caring and enthusiastic, Registered nurse to join our friendly and hardworking team within the Diabetes and Endocrine Unit at St George's University Hospital.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and skills in caring for patients with both Diabetes and Endocrine conditions. Applicants must possess excellent communication skills; have a flexible working approach and a willingness to work as part of a forward thinking team.

As skills and competencies develop, they will be expected to actively participate in and contribute to the day to day activities of the department by supervising, supporting and mentoring students and HCA's and assisting with the Flash Glucose monitoring (Free Style Libre)

Please note informal visit is highly Recommended

For further details or an informal visit please contact:

Orleas Mullings

Lead Nurse Diabetes and Endocrinology

Orleas.mullings@stgeorges.nhs.uk

0208 725 0935

Main duties of the job

To provide outstanding care to patients all of the time. As skills and competencies develop, taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the day to day activities of the department. Supervising, supporting and mentoring students and HCAs. Assisting with the Flash Glucose monitoring (Free Style Libre)

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.