• To support and deputise for the Ward Sister to ensure the provision of excellent nursing care and the effective management of staff and other resources.
• To co-ordinate the day-to-day management of the ward/department and ensure excellent communication is maintained.
• To ensure that there are education and training opportunities for all staff, including pre and post registration students and /or providing specialist knowledge if working in a clinical area where a post registration course is essential.

Main duties of the job

• Would you like to be part of a Cardiology Heart Failure Unit which is the first of its type in the United Kingdom and Europe?
• Are you dynamic, enthusiastic and a team player with a passion for providing high quality and innovative care? If so, we need you!
• The unit offers an exciting variety of patient management including those with acute decompensated heart failure, those with new or chronic heart failure who require device therapy, and in addition, those post myocardial infarction and those who may be at the end stage of their heart failure.
• Come and join our ambitious and progressive team at an exciting time of expansion for the Cardiovascular Directorate at St George's Healthcare NHS Trust.
• Knowledge and experience of Cardiology or Heart Failure nursing would be an advantage, along with experience of taking charge of a ward, leading shifts, ward rounds, MDTs, and managing junior staff.
• We have an excellent and dedicated Heart Failure resource including 5 Heart Failure Consultants and 5 Heart Failure Nurse Specialists, in addition to a Highly Specialised Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist and Dietician.
• This breadth of experience and knowledge will ensure you have the opportunity and support to understand the complete patient journey and will provide the springboard for development opportunities such as following the career pathway towards being an advanced nurse practitioner.

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 and Clinical Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Three years post registration experience, 18 months within the speciality
• Awareness of professional responsibilities
• Knowledge of current nursing issues

Desirable

• HDU or CCU experience

Organisational Management

Essential

• Prioritise work and to co-ordinate the ward or department
• Assess, plan and evaluate patient care according to individual needs.
• Application of leadership skills
• Good verbal and written communication abilities

Desirable

• Computer literate
• Understanding of change management

Education and Research

Essential

• Application of evidence based practice
• Evidence of ongoing Professional Development
• Understand student nurse assessment process
• Knowledge of PDR

Desirable

• Relevant course i.e. HF management
• Evidence of audit or research project
• Recognised PS + PS course or equivalent
• Attended PDR training

General

Essential

• Motivation and enthusiasm for the speciality
• Caring and sensitive approach to patient care
• Adaptable and responsive to changing needs
• Able to use own initiative

Desirable

• Clinical leadership programme

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road

Tooting

SW17 0QT

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