# Band 7 Emergency Department Team Leader - Lead ECN

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** St George's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Team leader
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Must be able to work a shift pattern that covers a 24 hour service - including nights, weekends and bank holidays)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14T11:07:08.529Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Accident_Emergency/Accident_Emergency-v8310733
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8310733?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Emergency Nurse to provide expert clinical and managerial leadership in the Emergency Department as a Band 7 Team leader Emergency Care Nurse.

You will be expected to work clinically in all areas of the department, including Resus, assessment and as Nurse in Charge, as well as to manage a team of nurses.

You will participate in research, audit and service development as part of the senior nursing team in the department.

- To have overall responsibility for the operational activity on the shift, including proactive management of issues to support performance of the ED 4-hr operational standard.
- To act as the professional role model, leading and co-ordinating the nursing team.
- To have shift responsibility for the management and organisation of the ward/department within the available resources.
- To be accountable for the overall provision of excellent nursing care and to work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team.

### Main duties of the job

- If you are looking for an exciting career that is both challenging and rewarding we at St George's Emergency Department are looking for a new band 7 team leader.
- The department sees a wide variety of patients from minor injuries to major traumas.
- As a team leader you will uphold the trust values while maintaining a high quality, safe emergency nursing care.
- You will be responsible for the day to day running of the department while showing leadership and clinical expertise.
- The Trust is one of only four designated Major Trauma Centres in London, with a helipad providing direct access to the ED for the most seriously injured patients.
- You will be expected to help manage safety and flow in the department and achieve government targets and key performance indicators.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the job description carefully to ensure that you meet the criteria as you are required to have significant senior ED experience.

You are required to have significant senior ED experience. Interview date to be confirmed.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Others

**Essential**

- - Enthusiasm for specialty
- - Effective role model
- - Adaptable and responsive to changing needs.
- - Must be articulate and able to liaise with members of the department.

**Desirable**

- - Understanding of Quality Assurance and Clinical Audit

### Skills

**Essential**

- - Well-developed leadership skills.
- - Ability to effectively prioritise and organise own workload and workload of others
- - Demonstrates good written & verbal. communication skills
- - Demonstrates effective teaching skills
- - Work confidentially within all areas of the ED

**Desirable**

- - Management course

### Experience

**Essential**

- - Extensive post registration experience.
- - Experience of managing a team.
- - Previous Band 6 experience within the speciality.

**Desirable**

- - Experience of audit and/research

### Qualifications and Training

**Essential**

- - RN (Adult) or RN(Child)
- - Core post-registration emergency Nursing Education (Acutely unwell Adult or Child, Emergency Practice or equivalent).
- - Practise assessor
- - BSc or evidence of study at level 6 with ability to complete BSc
- - Safeguarding level 3
- - ATNC, ETC or equivalent (or able to undertake within 6 months)
- - ALS

**Desirable**

- - MSc or evidence of study at level 7.

## Documents

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