Senior Staff Nurse

Are you ready to take the next step in your cardiology nursing career?

We are offering an exciting part time, permanent opportunity for a Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse to join A7 and lead by example in our busy and rewarding unit.

About A7

A7 is a 25-bedded cardiology ward incorporating a 5-bedded CCU (Level 2 care) and 20 step-down beds with cardiac monitoring and telemetry. We care for patients admitted from the Heart Assessment Centre, London Ambulance Service, tertiary referrals and ED, with conditions including acute myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, pulmonary hypertension, and post-procedural cases such as TAVI and MitraClip. We also support step-downs from ITU requiring ongoing specialist cardiology management.

As a Senior Staff Nurse, You Will

• Provide strong clinical leadership, supporting and inspiring junior colleagues.
• Ensure safe, high-quality, evidence-based patient care.
• Play a key role in service improvement, staff development, and patient experience.
• Act as a clinical role model in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

We’re Looking For Someone Who

• Has substantial experience in cardiac or acute care.
• Demonstrates excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Is committed to developing both their own practice and the team around them.
• Providing high-quality, effective, individualized nursing care to patients by assessing their needs and developing, implementing, and evaluating care plans without supervision.
• The post holder will be expected to liaise appropriately with all key members of the multi-disciplinary team and service users related to the specialty.
• To be responsible for all aspects of patient care including the assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of direct patient care with supervision from senior staff.
• To support the ward manager to monitor the safety and quality of care for patients. Maintaining accurate clinical observations of patients, utilizing nursing skills and competencies.
• To manage a group of staff nurses and healthcare support workers within their shifts, assign delegated tasks and responsibility as appropriate. Assisting in the teaching and development of the nursing team, healthcare support workers, and pre-registration students, helping them to achieve their learning outcomes.
• To ensure the compliance of mandatory training and appraisal requirements for delegated nursing staff and healthcare support workers.
• To ensure a positive-focused service incorporating patients’ feedback to maintain and improve patient care. To act as an effective role model promoting excellence through practice.
• To resume responsibility of bed management via bed bleep out of hours (overnight) and ensuring smooth patient flow through the service.