# Senior Staff Nurse Band 6 > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-staff-nurse-band-6/8c0f9def-5791-4f5d-b010-347e34ddf881 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-staff-nurse-band-6/8c0f9def-5791-4f5d-b010-347e34ddf881.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St George's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Staff nurse - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-30T07:40:39.489Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Cardiology/Cardiology-v8264886 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8264886?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview - To support and deputise for the Ward Sister to ensure the provision of excellent nursing care and the effective management of staff and other resources. - To co-ordinate the day-to-day management of the ward/department and ensure excellent communication is maintained. - To ensure that there are education and training opportunities for all staff, including pre and post registration students and /or providing specialist knowledge if working in a clinical area where a post registration course is essential . ### Main duties of the job St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country's leading teaching hospitals with an international reputation for patient care, education and research. You will be expected to work as an excellent role model providing excellent patient care as you develop your excellent clinical skills and leadership. You will be part of multi-disciplinary team working together to provide quality service provision, excellent clinical management and safe and effective discharge processes. So if you are ambitious and have excellent leadership skills and can make a real difference for caring for cardiology patients this is the job for you. We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflect these. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role. ### 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 ### General **Essential** - Motivates and demonstrates enthusiasm for the clinical speciality - Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to patient care - Adaptable and responsive to changing needs - Able to use own initiative - Ability to identify stress in self and others and to take effective action to manage the situation **Desirable** - Clinical Leadership Programme ### Education and Research **Essential** - Demonstrates knowledge of the application of evidence based practice - Demonstrates an understanding of the assessment process for student nurses - Has knowledge of performance review - Evidence of Professional Development - Must undertake relevant work related course/s e.g. management within 12 months of being appointed **Desirable** - Attended appraisal training - Evidence of audit or research project - Relevant Specialist Course/s e.g. Heart Failure Management - Recognised Mentorship/Teaching qualification e.g. ENB 998, Mentorship Module ### Organisational Management **Essential** - Ability to prioritise work and to co- ordinate the ward or department - Ability to assess, plan and evaluate patient care according to individual needs - Demonstrates an understanding of the application of leadership skills - Has good verbal and written communication abilities - Reliable with a good attendance record **Desirable** - Computer literate - Understanding of change management tools and principles ### Qualifications and Experience **Essential** - RN (general) - Minimum of three years post registration experience, of which 18 months within the speciality - Awareness of professional responsibilities - Knowledge of current nursing issues **Desirable** - 12 Lead ECG course - HDU or CCU experience. ## Documents - [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) - [band 6 senior staff nurse job description (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10584765) ## 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.