# Senior Staff Nurse/ODP - Interventional Radiology/Cardiac Cath Lab

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Great Ormond Street Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Operating department practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 Inclusive per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Able to take on-calls and work where the department needs)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-27T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14T00:03:25.808Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Great_Ormond_Street_Hospital_Children_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Interventional_RadiologyCardiac_Cath_Lab/Interventional_RadiologyCardiac_Cath_Lab-v8164282
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8164282?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.gosh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you looking to learn and develop highly specialised skills in a supportive and innovative department where provision and maintenance of high quality & excellence of service to patients, parents and families is key. Do you have existing leadership/management skills and experience or feel that you have excellent leadership potential waiting to be developed. Do you want to work in a leading Paediatric Centre and to join our friendly and Child centred Interventional Radiology/Cardiac Cath Lab Team? If your answers to the above are ‘Yes’, then this position could be for you!

You will work within the Interventional Radiology and Cardiac Cath Lab Department therefore peri-operative experience, such as scrub and circulating, would be desirable. However, you will be given training and support in our specialist skills and in peri-operative care. We have an excellent and supportive Practice Education Team who will assist with your orientation and on-going professional development. The Interventional Radiology and Cardiac Catheter Lab run’s Monday to Friday 0800- 1800hrs, with a 24h on-call service, including weekends and Bank holidays.

### Main duties of the job

The Interventional Radiology Team perform procedures that include central venous access device insertion, biopsy, airway intervention, feeding device insertion, vascular intervention, angiography, and angioplasty.

- To provide clinical leadership to a designated nursing team and ensure the provision of high quality nursing care to children and families.
- To act as a role model and expert clinical practitioner
- To assist in the safe, effective and efficient management of the department within allocated resources
- To promote a progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research and evidence based practice
- To undertake delegated responsibility for the department in the absence of the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse

The Cardiac Cath lab carries out many cardiac procedures including:

- ASD/PDA closures
- ICD implants
- Diagnostic catheters and combined MRI/angiography cases in our state of the art Cardiac Cath Lab suite.
- In addition we provide continuing care to our heart and lung transplant patients.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachments.

### 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

### Combined Values

**Essential**

- Combined Values

### Skills/Abilities

**Essential**

- Ability to plan and prioritise care for patients
- Committed to family centred care
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent numeracy skills
- Good time management and teaching skills
- Ability to work well both in a team and on own initiative
- Ability to delegate tasks as appropriate
- Demonstrates Compassion in practice

**Desirable**

- Central venous access management

### Experience/Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
- Experience of having worked with acute/chronically sick children or specialised transferable skills
- Understanding of professional and current issues in children’s nursing
- Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace.
- Understanding of the importance of research and evidence-based practice
- Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
- Basic knowledge of computer skills
- Understanding of safeguarding issues according to Trust policies and procedures
- Understanding of principles of clinical governance (e.g. risk management, audit, quality)
- Understating or evidence of fulfilling requirements for Revalidation

**Desirable**

- Understanding of nursing practice and innovation outside of GOSH
- Knowledge of clinical incidents and complaints and reporting
- Previous experience in the relevant specialty of post (preferably in an NHS setting)

### Academic/Professional qualification/Training

**Essential**

- NMC Registered Nurse or HCPC registered ODP (appropriate to clinical speciality)
- Evidence of ongoing professional development relating to clinical speciality – i.e. University Accredited modules e.g. Theatre Course, Leadership course
- Assessor or practice supervisor qualification/experience

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 536.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10562736)
- [staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 108.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2815)

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