# Staff Nurse PICU

> 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
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £38,488 - £46,852 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Mat Leave cover)
- **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (Full Time 37.5 hours per week)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-07T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28T10:40:47.933Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Band_Staff_Nurse_PICU/Band_Staff_Nurse_PICU-v8129016
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8129016?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

- We are looking for passionate enthusiastic newly qualified and experienced children’s nurses committed to excellent patient experience to join our team.
- The candidate would be required to provide excellent nursing care, supervise and mentor Student Nurses and Health Care Assistants, act as an advocate for child and family and participate and contribute to the management of the unit.
- As you launch your nursing career or want to further your experience St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust will provide an exciting and excellent environment in which to meet the challenges of nursing.It all begins when you start the application process.

### Main duties of the job

- St George’s University Hospital is a renowned centre of excellence and a nationally recognised Trauma Centre.
- We provide specialist care and treatment for children and young people across the south east.
- PICU is a busy 10 ITU beds providing care for children with a variety of health care needs. Specialities include oncology, trauma, paediatric surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, paediatric infectious diseases and paediatric medicine.
- We also manage a 5 beds High Dependency Unit.
- We are looking for passionate enthusiastic newly qualified and experienced children’s nurses committed to excellent patient experience to join our team.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- a)Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to the needs of patient / parents / guardians / relatives and other staff.
- b)demonstrate motivation and enthusiasm for the speciality.

**Desirable**

- a) Ability to identify stress in self and others and to take effective action to manage the situation.

### Skills

**Essential**

- a) Demonstrate sound written, numeric and verbal communication skills.
- b) Demonstrate ability to work with and to use resources effectively as part of the MDT.
- c) Ability to prioritise/adapt quickly and organise own workload and workload of more junior staff.
- d) Ability to use own initiative.

**Desirable**

- IV administration course

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- a) Awareness of professional responsibilities.
- b) Demonstrate an understanding of normal child development and the sick child.
- c) Demonstrate an understanding of the role of advocate for the child.

**Desirable**

- a) Experience of undertaking small research or audit projects.

### Qualifications and Training

**Essential**

- a) RN (Child)
- b) Experience in assessment, planning and evaluation of patient care according to individual needs.

**Desirable**

- b) Practice Supervisor Qualification/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)
- [job description & person specification (pdf, 221.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10426114)

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