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

Fast forward your paediatric nursing career at Imperial. With five world-renowned hospitals, we are full of opportunity for nurses who are moving to paediatrics or looking for progression to develop new skills. Get involved in quality improvement and collaborate with leading paediatric teams.

Undertake a career pathway of training and education that is individually developed for you and supported by our clinical nurse educators on the wards and class room.

Your skills will be further enhanced nursing a diverse range of patients in need of paediatric medical and surgical services, including:

• High dependency care
• Haematology
• Acute trauma
• Respiratory
• Allergy/immunology
• Diabetes
• Metabolic
• Epilepsy
• Infectious Disease

Join our dynamic and friendly nursing teams on our 25 bedded fast paced unit Great Western ward. You will build up your confidence and experience as you take charge of the ward and care for patients that range from neonates to adulthood. Your nursing skills will be further enhanced caring for patients transferred from paediatric intensive care and neonatal intensive care units at St Mary's and Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea hospitals. We also receive admissions direct from our paediatric emergency department for acute trauma care. Our service further includes providing ambulatory PSSU day care from St Mary's Hospital.

Our teams have excellent inter-professional working relationships with services for children including critical care, emergency department, community nursing teams and the ambulatory care unit.

At Imperial you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people. You'll be 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 opportunities for career development, flexible working and wellbeing, plus a staff recognition scheme. Also, take advantage of optional benefits including the cycle to work and car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities as well as parking if required.

All of our hospitals are near quick transport access to Westfield shopping and leisure centre, the West End, and a range of local bars, cafes and restaurants - ideal for team socials!

Main duties of the job

• Providing high quality, effective and individualised nursing care to a variety of patients in a compassionate and caring way.
• Assessing care needs and developing, implementing and evaluating care plans without supervision.
• Helping to lead and monitor the performance of the nursing team.
• Deputising for the Senior Nurse as 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.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

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

• Registered Sick Children's Nurse, RSCN
• Experience of supervision of junior staff, Mentorship in practice or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• ENP/ANP or working towards
• Masters or working towards

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Minimum of 12 months at pay band 5 within the relevant speciality.

Desirable criteria

• Critical care or acute ward experience
• Supervision and assessment of staff at all levels in clinical practice

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to take charge of a ward or part of a ward, delegate and supervise junior staff
• Advanced interpersonal skills
• Effective time management for self and others
• Able to manage difficult situations effectively.
• Able to use own initiative.

Desirable criteria

• Leadership skills / courses

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, 544.5KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 232.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)