St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS site located in St Georges Town, London. Salary £35,964 - £43,780 per annum HCAS inc (pro-rata). Closing 23/09/2025 23:59.
Overview
Staff Nurse, Band 5 role at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This vacancy is open to experienced nurses who can contribute to patient care and ward management on a rotating basis.
Responsibilities
* Providing excellent nursing care. As skills and competencies develop, taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the ward or department on a regular basis.
* Supervising and mentoring junior staff.
* Maintaining personal contact with patients, relatives and carers, being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and ensuring a friendly environment at all times.
* As skills develop, managing the ward or department in the absence of the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse or Deputy, maintaining safe staffing levels, ensuring that policies are followed up and that the Senior Nurse is informed of any problems or incidents that might arise.
* Maintaining timely and accurate nursing records and ensuring that confidentiality is respected.
* Storing, checking and administering drugs including the intravenous route in accordance with Trust policy and NMC standards.
Main duties
* The Coronary Care Unit at St Georges Hospital is an 11 bedded unit with a very rapid turnover. We pride ourselves as having one of the best door to PCI times amongst the London Hospitals.
* Are you flexible, hard working, and dynamic? Are you career orientated? Would you like a career pathway?
* Would you like to be a part of the team? We now have a vacancy for a band 5 nurse who can demonstrate an interest in Cardiology. Could that person be you?
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information and person specification information about the role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* Registered Nurse (general)
Education & Research
* Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of research and evidence based practice
* Able to explain the principles of mentoring and assessing junior staff
* Understands the importance of developing self and others
* Demonstrates an understanding of audit
* Ability to take on small research or audit project.
General & Personal
* Demonstrates an enthusiasm for the speciality i.e. CCU and demonstrates the reason why.
* Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to patient care
* Sound verbal and written communication.
* Adaptable and responsive to changing needs
* Ability to use own initiative
* Ability to identify stress in self and others and to take effective action to manage the situation
* Motivated.
* Ability to motivate and lead staff for a shift.
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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