Emergency Care Nurse - Emergency Department

Job overview

• To work primarily, but not exclusively, in the resuscitation area to provide, develop and coordinate high quality nursing care to patients attending with emergency and major trauma care needs.
• To participate in the support and professional development of all staff.

Main duties of the job

• St. George’s Emergency Department is one of the largest in the country, seeing approximately 160, 000 patients a year.
• 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.
• The Trust is also a hyper-acute stroke unit and a heart attack centre.
• We are searching for highly motivated nurse with critical care or emergency nursing experience to join our friendly team of Emergency Care Nurses (ECN).
• This innovative role was established in 2006 to work primarily in the highly equipped 8-bedded resuscitation area of the Emergency Department providing care and technical expertise to the most severely ill and injured adults and children.
• The department is committed to supporting on-going professional development with strong links to academic programmes and a well-established work-based development programme.
• You will supported in further development by the Practice Education Team and medical colleagues.
• We are looking for nurses with a significant post-registration experience in ED / critical care and a strong interest in emergency and major trauma care. It is essential that you have a post registration specialist course and experience of local management skills within your current area.
• We would welcome interest from people with a strong interest in teaching and research to support the on-going development of the role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.