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Job overview
- 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.
- Maintaining personal contact with patients, relatives and carers, being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and ensuring a friendly environment at all times.
- As skills develop, managing the ward or department in the absence of the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse or Deputy, maintaining safe staffing levels, ensuring that polices are followed up and that the Senior Nurse is informed of any problems or incidents that might arise.
- Maintaining timely and accurate nursing records and ensuring that confidentiality is respected.
- Storing, checking and administering drugs including the intravenous route in accordance with Trust policy and NMC standards.
Due to the high volume of this post, this post may close once our cap is reached. Kindly do not contact the Recruiting manager or Recruitment team to reopen once the vacancy is closed.
If you have applied in the last 3 months and have been unsuccessful, please do not reapply.
Main duties of the job
South West London Heart attack centre needs you!
- The Coronary Care Unit at St Georges Hospital is an 11 bedded unit with a very rapid turnover. We pride ourselves as having one of the best door to PCI times amongst the London Hospitals.
- Are you flexible, hard working, and dynamic? Are you career orientated? Would you like a career pathway?
- Would you like to be a part of the team? We now have a vacancy for a band 5 nurse who can demonstrate an interest in Cardiology. Could that person be you?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
Person specification
General & Personal
Essential
- Demonstrates an enthusiasm for the speciality i.e. CCU and demonstrates the reason why.
- 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
- Motivated.
Desirable
- Ability to motivate and lead staff for a shift.
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.
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse (general)
Desirable
- Desirable 12 months post registration experience.
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This advert is for Band 5 Staff Nurse with St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £38,488 - £46,852 per annum HCAS inc (pro-rata). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 01 Jul 2026.
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