Are you an experience gastro-enterology nurse? Is providing outstanding care every time and getting the basics right what you care about? Do you have the ability to see the potential in others and develop it? Is making a difference and doing the right thing fundamental to you? If your answer to these questions is yes, the ward sister/charge nurse role may be right for you.

We have a full time opportunity for an experience gastro-enterology nurse on Allingham, a 28 bedded acute Gastroenterology ward caring for patients with a variety of conditions including luminal gastroenterology, hepatology and hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease as well as patients with enhanced nutritional needs. This is a chance to develop your management and leadership skills as part of a highly capable team.

We offer o Clinical Expert - with a variety of acutely unwell patients passing through the unit you will be able to keep abreast of the latest clinical developments.o Leadership skills - our leadership course and staff management courses will help you develop the skills you need to lead and motivate the team to provide excellent care. We also offer 1 2 1 supervision and band 7 networking.o Education - Opportunities for mentorship and preceptorship with our placement students and newly qualified nurses.

With a variety of career progression opportunities - from Matron, Practice Educator, Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Head of Nursing. Where do you see yourself?

Main duties of the job

Clinical expert - and role model.

Leader - A visible and authoritative presence able to lead and manage the team and patient care, co-ordinating with the MDT to enable outstanding care to be given every time within available resources.

Educator - able to identify and develop the potential in others.

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

• NMC registered
• Mentorship Course / teaching qualification
• Post graduate module in speciality

Desirable

• Masters or willing to undertake
• Clinical Leadership Programme

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience /competency within the speciality
• Management of a ward / department / Nurse in Charge
• Teaching, assessing and development of junior staff and students
• Evidence of managing staff and dealing with difficult situations i.e. performance, sickness, change

Desirable

• Budget management

Skills

Desirable

• Audits

Motivates and demonstrates enthusiasm for the clinical speciality

Essential

• Motivates and demonstrates enthusiasm for the clinical speciality

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Georges University Hospital

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT

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