South West London Heart attack centre needs you!

• 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.

Main duties of the job

St George's Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the country's leading teaching hospitals with an international reputation for patient care, education and research.

Due to the expansion of the current Service, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Cardiology Service at St George's Hospital, London. Belgrave Ward is a dynamic unit that is changing with the increasing demands on the St George's Cardiology service, a regional tertiary centre delivering high quality care. Belgrave Ward currently consists of 24 beds, providing care for a large range of cardiology patients including, heart failure, post MI, pre/post angiogram/plasty, TAVI, endocarditis, out of hospital cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, brugada/Long QT.

Ideally you will have 12 months post qualification experience but newly qualified nurses are welcome to apply. You will be expected to work as an excellent role model as you develop your clinical and leadership skills providing excellent patient care.We are looking for people to join the team with an interest in Cardiology. So if you are ambitious and want to develop your nursing and cardiology skills and make a real difference for caring for cardiology patients this is the opportunity for you. We offer a wide range of post-graduate development and as such you will be encouraged to develop your specialist knowledge and skills in assessment, analysis of ECG and management of unwell patients.

About us

With nearly9,000 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Registered Nurse (general)

Desirable

• A minimum of 12 months post registration experience.

Organisational Management

Essential

• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care according to individual needs.
• Ability to effectively prioritise workload and patient care needs.
• Demonstrates an understanding of managing resources
• Demonstrates an understanding of clinical risk

Desirable

• Computer literate
• Ability to take charge of the ward in the absence of the Ward Manager on a regular basis.

Education & Research

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Demonstrates an understanding of audit
• Ability to take on small research or audit project.

General & Personal

Essential

• Motivated.
• Demonstrates an enthusiasm for the speciality.
• 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

Desirable

• Ability to motivate and lead staff for a shift.

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT

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