• Do you have experience in caring for patients with infectious diseases? Do you have an interest in mentoring students and junior staff?
• Are you looking to develop your ward management skills? Then our senior staff nurse post may be what you are looking for.
• We have an opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join us in the Specialist Medicine Division on McEntee, an 18 bedded purpose built infectious diseases unit that specialises in the care of patients with transmissible diseases including the management of patients with HIV/AIDS, TB and imported infections such as Malaria.

You will have experience in caring for patients with complex needs who can be acutely unwell.

We offer:

o An environment that will enable you to develop and broaden your nursing portfolio.

o Support in your career development and training.

o Opportunities to develop your management and clinical skills including mentorship and nurse in charge competencies.

o Opportunities to grow your teaching and mentoring skills with our students, newly qualified nurses and HCA's - supported by our team of practice educators.

We offer outstanding career progression opportunities - from Nursing management, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Practice educator and Nurse practitioner roles. Where do you see yourself?

Main duties of the job

• To support and deputise for the Ward Manager and Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to ensure the provision of outstanding nursing care and the effective management of staff and other resources.
• To carry out the day-to-day management and co-ordination of the ward or department.
• To ensure that there are education and training opportunities for all staff, including pre and post registration students.
• To act as a source of specialist information for staff, patients and visitors.

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 attached Job description and personal specification which contains more information about the role.

Person Specification

Professional/Clinical Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• RN (Adult)
• mentorship / practice assessor or willing to undertake

Desirable

• Studying towards a MSC

Organisational Management

Essential

• Relevant specialist course or equivalent experience / competency.
• Nurse in charge competency

Desirable

• Computer literate

Education and Research

Essential

• Demonstrates knowledge of and enthusiasm for the speciality.
• Experience in supporting / mentoring junior staff and students

Desirable

• Attended appraisal / IPR training.

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT

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200-6504272-MA-SC