# Staff Nurse

> 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 HCAS inc (pro-rata)
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-28T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-21T08:21:34.871Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Coronary_Care_Unit/Coronary_Care_Unit-v8169955
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8169955?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

- Providing excellent nursing care. As skills and competencies develop taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the ward or department on a regular basis.
- Supervising and mentoring junior staff.
- Maintaining personal contact with patients, relatives and carers, being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and ensuring a friendly environment at all times.
- As skills develop, managing the ward or department in the absence of the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse or Deputy, maintaining safe staffing levels, ensuring that polices are followed up and that the Senior Nurse is informed of any problems or incidents that might arise.
- Maintaining timely and accurate nursing records and ensuring that confidentiality is respected.
- Storing, checking and administering drugs including the intravenous route in accordance with Trust policy and NMC standards.

Due to the high demand of this role - this vacancy may be close before the deadline once the required number of applicants has been received

If you have within the last 5 months applied for this role or similar at St Georges Hospital and have been unsuccessful kindly do not reapply- your application form will not be considered

### Main duties of the job

### South West London Heart attack centre needs you!

- The Coronary Care Unit at St Georges Hospital is an 11 bedded unit with a very rapid turnover. We pride ourselves as having one of the best door to PCI times amongst the London Hospitals.
- Are you flexible, hard working, and dynamic? Are you career orientated? Would you like a career pathway?
- Would you like to be a part of the team? We now have a vacancy for a band 5 nurse who can demonstrate an interest in Cardiology. Could that person be you?

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

## Person Specification

### General & Personal

**Essential**

- Demonstrates an enthusiasm for the speciality i.e. CCU and demonstrates the reason why.
- Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to patient care
- Sound verbal and written communication.
- Adaptable and responsive to changing needs
- Ability to use own initiative
- Ability to identify stress in self and others and to take effective action to manage the situation
- Motivated.

**Desirable**

- Ability to motivate and lead staff for a shift.

### Education & Research

**Essential**

- Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of research and evidence based practice
- Able to explain the principles of mentoring and assessing junior staff
- Understands the importance of developing self and others

**Desirable**

- Demonstrates an understanding of audit
- Ability to take on small research or audit project.

### Qualifications and Training

**Essential**

- Registered Nurse (general)

**Desirable**

- Desirable 12 months post registration 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 and person specification (pdf, 199.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10471985)

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