Band 7 Sister/Charge Nurse

Job summary

To provide the safest and highest quality environment for the practice of interventional cardiology, pacing and electrophysiology at all times. Our priorities are patient safety, achieving the best clinical outcomes from the procedures that we perform and valuing the professionalism of the team that performs them.

Main duties of the job

CARDIOTHORACIC UNIT

Sister(Band 7) Cardiac Catheter Labs

We are looking for an experienced Cardiac Catheter Lab nurse who would like to join our team for a year to cover a period of Maternity Leave. This is a great opportunity as these posts don't come up very often!

St George's Hospital has 5 busy Labs undertaking the full range of invasive Cardiology in intervention, electrophysiology and device implant, as well as numerous live cases to conferences.

The successful nurse will have gained experience at Band 6 and be a good leader and communicator. They will be motivated and keen to join our busy department participating in all aspects of the invasive cardiology and undertaking some management duties.

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.

Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflect these.