# Staff Nurse

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Location:** St Mary's Hospital (The Bays)
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Staff nurse
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £38,488 - £46,852 pa inclusive
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-06T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22T12:50:53.258Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Elderly_Medicine/Elderly_Medicine-v8313438
- **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Thistlewayte Ward is a 20-bedded acute Medicine for the Elderly ward at St Mary’s Hospital, caring for older adults with frailty, complex medical conditions and discharge needs. The ward offers a supportive learning environment in which to develop expertise in comprehensive assessment, frailty care, rehabilitation, medicines management, dementia and delirium care, multidisciplinary working, family communication and safe discharge planning.

As a Band 5 Staff Nurse, you will assess, plan, deliver and evaluate evidence-based, person-centred care for a group of patients; promote dignity, independence and wellbeing; recognise and escalate deterioration; administer medicines safely; maintain accurate documentation; and work closely with medical, therapy, pharmacy, discharge and community teams. You will also communicate effectively with patients, relatives and carers, contribute to a positive safety culture, support students and healthcare assistants, and participate in quality improvement.

### Main duties of the job

- Work in accordance with the NMC Code, Trust policies, clinical guidelines and relevant legislation.
- Maintain current NMC registration, mandatory training and continuing professional development.
- Take professional accountability for own practice and seek advice or escalate concerns appropriately.
- Maintain accurate, timely and confidential patient records.
- Promote patient safety, dignity, equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Comply with safeguarding, infection prevention and control, health and safety, information governance and risk-management requirements.
- Report incidents, near misses and concerns through the appropriate Trust systems and support learning from incidents.
- Participate in clinical audit, quality improvement, service evaluation and implementation of evidence-based practice.
- Use Trust resources responsibly and contribute to a safe, efficient clinical environment.
- Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, carers and the multidisciplinary team.

### 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 overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

### 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

### Experience

**Essential**

- Previous experience in specialty

### Education/ qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Nurse

**Desirable**

- 6 months to 1 year experience in healthcare

### Skills/knowledge/ abilities

**Essential**

- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Teaching
- Ability to organise ward activities and to use initiative
- Ability to solve problems and contribute new ideas
- Competency in medication
- Skills required to undertake clinical activity related to speciality
- Good IT skills
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit
- Awareness of current developments in nursing
- Knowledge of the NMC Code of Conduct
- Knowledge of speciality

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 391.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10634157)
- [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427)
- [functional requirement form (pdf, 240.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10634158)

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