Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Staff Nurse - HDU - Savannah Surgery, Spinal and Orthopaedics
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Job Opportunity: Surgical Nurse
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our surgical team, our 26 bedded unit offers a dynamic environment to widen your surgical skill set in caring for spinal, orthopaedic, and general surgical patients. We pride ourselves in supporting a range of children and families on their journey through surgical interventions.
About the Role
As a well-established surgical centre, we care for patients across the South East of England. The post holder will work alongside our clinical educator to enhance their nursing skills, knowledge, and develop leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Training and Development: We will encourage you to explore the specialities further through a range of training and development, for example participating in internal and external courses such as Advanced paediatric life support and Evelina Paediatric Acute Nursing in Critical Care.
- Patient Care: The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning, and provision of specialist nursing advice and carrying out specialist nursing procedures.
- Care Management: The post holder is responsible for assessment of care needs of patients, planning programmes of care, implementation, and evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision. At times they will have management responsibility for being in-charge of the ward and supervising junior members of staff, as part of their own development and career progression.
- Leadership and Accountability: The post holder will be a key member in relation to the development of practice on the ward. They will be working independently/autonomously and at times without direct supervision, accountable for their own professional actions. Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person-centred care principles. Self-development should be a priority for the post holder, with multiple educational opportunities within the trust available.
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Requirements
- Experience: Post qualification experience is required for this role. They are not currently open to newly qualified nurses or nurses in the process of registering with the NMC from abroad.
- Licensing: This advert is open to applicants with an active Nursing and Midwifery Council Personal Identification number (PIN) (this refers to an NMC Pin identification that allows you to work as a registered nurse/midwife in the UK. If you have a PRN number only, please do not apply for this post. You can contact Capital Nurse or Capital Midwife (https://www.capitalnurselondon.co.uk/be-a-london-nurse/agencies/) to find out how to apply for International Nurse or Midwifery jobs).
- Career Development: There is also an opportunity for an experienced band 5 nurse to seek a development pathway towards a band 6 role.
About Us
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.
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Our Commitment
- Flexible Working: We are committed to supporting flexible working; we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Part-time working is available.
- Diversity and Inclusion: We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and creating a sense of belonging and fun for all our teams caring for women, children, and families; as we continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities, and charitable bodies and GPs, we recognise the huge benefit of our workforce being reflective of the diverse communities we serve.
- Professional Development: We are committed to supporting the professional development of staff, and have excellent training and educational offerings. Recognising that looking after babies, children, and young people is incredibly rewarding, but can also bring challenge, we offer amazing resources to help support our staff’s emotional wellbeing and resilience.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits contact:
Chloe Sharpe
Job Title: Ward Sister
Email Address: chloe.sharpe1@nhs.net
Aniela Fatimah
Email Address: Aniela.fatimah4@nhs.net
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