Senior Staff Nurse

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 nurse who want to advance their career in nursing to join The Wharfside clinic. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our dedicated HIV workforce in a prestigious Trust where we are motivated by innovation, the desire to make a difference and our passion for patient centred care.

This fixed term Band 6 opportunity to develop your skills working within the field of HIV as an independent practitioner within our proactive multi-disciplinary team. If you would like to further your career in this interesting area of nursing, our in house training and development programme will equip you with the skills you need in HIV and Sexual Health. Based at St Mary's hospital, providing HIV care of the highest quality to over 3,200 patients, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has one of the largest and most innovative units of its kind in the UK.

Nurses play a central role in the delivery of patient care in our HIV outpatient day ward and this role is continuously developing in order to meet the changing care needs of the patients. The post holder will also have the opportunity to develop skills in Sexual Health, HIV testing and to work closely with our Advanced Nurse Practitioner team on a rotational basis.

Main duties of the job
• To lead the Wharfside Nursing team and rotate to triage in the emergency clinic.
• To provide high quality, effective, individualised care to all patients that is compassionate and caring.
• To assess care needs and develop, implement and evaluate them without supervision
• To assist in leading and monitoring the performance of the Wharfside nursing team
• To deputise for the Senior Nurse when required

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

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.

Person specification

Education/ qualifications

Essential criteria

• Teaching Qualification or equivalent experience.
• Registered Nurse

Desirable criteria

• Degree (or working towards)
• Relevant specialist course or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience of speciality
• Experience of audit and research

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

Essential criteria

• Good communication skills
• Teaching
• Ability to organise dayward activities and to use initiative.
• Knowledge of the NMC Code of Conduct
• Knowledge of speciality

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 552.5KB)
• Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 368.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)