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Staff Nurse - Heart Failure Unit | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,089 - £41,498 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 August 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6493881/200-6493881-MA-VA |
Summary
• 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 polices 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.
• To work with minimal supervision in all areas of the speciality as required.
• Communicating with and assisting the multidisciplinary team to promote excellence in the delivery of patient care.
• To prioritise own workload and that of other staff ensuring that the ward or department is managed effectively.
With nearly 9,000 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.
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
This advert closes on Monday 12 Aug 2024
• 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 polices 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.
• To work with minimal supervision in all areas of the speciality as required.
• Communicating with and assisting the multidisciplinary team to promote excellence in the delivery of patient care.
• To prioritise own workload and that of other staff ensuring that the ward or department is managed effectively.
With nearly 9,000 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.
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
This advert closes on Monday 12 Aug 2024
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