Band 5 Scrub Nurse/ODP Paeds Obs & Gynae

Job summary

Band 5 Scrub Staff Nurse within Paeds, Obs & Gynae theatre team. Providing excellent perioperative care across specialities and providing cover for both elective and emergency services. This post will be suitable for registered nurse/ODP willing to expand their knowledge and skills in perioperative practice in delivering high quality and safe patient care.

Main duties of the job

Band 5 Scrub Staff Nurse - Paeds Ob &Gynae Theatre Team

We are looking for enthusiastic staff to come and join our Paeds Obs&Gynae theatre team at St Georges. We are interested in hearing from staff from diverse range of perioperative experience who are looking to develop their career in paediatric , obstetrics and gynaecology perioperative service.. We are likewise equally happy to support and facilitate the training of the individuals who are keen to learn.

We have 34 operating theatres between St George's and Queen Mary's Hospitals . Our staff work in teams and we are committed to keeping our focus on giving Outstanding Care, Every Time to our patients.

The main duties of this job role include:

• Setting, monitoring and maintaining excellent standards of nursing care in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
• Ensuring that nursing procedures are carried out in accordance to Trust's polices
• As skills and competencies develop, taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the theatre area or on a regular basis.
• Supervising and mentoring junior staff.
• Working to support Paeds, Obs and Gynae services on a 24/7 basis. Presently, this post do not require on-call commitment.

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.