# Band 5 Staff Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-5-staff-nurse/d3b32601-b6b7-4870-85bf-3e187eb543a2 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-5-staff-nurse/d3b32601-b6b7-4870-85bf-3e187eb543a2.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £38,488 - £46,852 per annum HCAS inc (pro-rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-01T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-17T14:12:22.050Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Coronary_Care_Unit/Coronary_Care_Unit-v8091810 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8091810?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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? ## 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. ## Documents - [onboarding roadmap (pdf, 440.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3007) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2411) - [swl ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3045) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 199.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10385094) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.