Job overview
Are you passionate about delivering exceptional emergency nursing care to children and young people?
We are seeking experienced Band 6 senior staff nurses to join our skilled multi-disciplinary team. The role involves co-ordinating and leading a shift on a regular basis. The role also involves providing professional and inspirational leadership to ensure that patients and their families receive high quality clinical care and an excellent patient experience.
If you have a desire to enhance your acute emergency and minor injury skills, look no further. We believe in developing our staff, providing access to APLS training, as well as other professional development.
Please note this role will require you to work days, nights and weekends. You will be given notice of your shifts to enable you to plan your work and home life.
Closing date: Midnight 21th April 2026.
Interviews date: 6 May 2026
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning and provision of specialist nursing advice and carries out specialist nursing procedures. The post holder will provide clinical supervision to other staff, students and may undertake research, lead clinical audits in own specialist area.
Ensuring the safety and well being of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centred care principles.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s
best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s
Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in
Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical
excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We
provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health
sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s
biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of duties and responsibilities for each criteria please see the attached Job Description.
1. Clinical and Patient Care
2. Quality
3. Education and Leadership
4. Research and Development
5. Management and Leadership
6. Compliance and Governance
7. Communication
Person specification
Qualifications/ Professional Registration
Essential criteria
8. RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality
9. Post registration qualification in or demonstrate relevant experience and competence (appropriate area of speciality)
10. Mentorship/Teaching Qualification
11. Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
Additional Information
Essential criteria
12. Able and willing to work flexible shift patterns, internal rotation to day and night duty and unsocial hours, according to service needs
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
Essential criteria
13. Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues. Knowledge of evidence based practice.
14. Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
15. Good communication skills and ability to deal with sensitive information. To include dealing with distressed relatives, care of terminally ill & other challenging situations
16. Demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management and how this effects their role and the department
17. Demonstrates ability to influence and negotiate with others. Ability to organise and plan own time and that of junior staff and learners.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
18. Previous post registration experience within the relevant specialty
19. Experiencing of co-ordinating a shift
20. Supervision of junior staff
21. Experienced and competent in the management of patients within the speciality
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.