Senior Staff Nurse - Intensive Care - St Mary's Hospital

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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

As a Band 6 nurse within the Adult Intensive Care Unit at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, you will be able to fulfil your potential in a hospital that makes history. The trust provides care to patients from Northwest London and beyond. St Mary's Adult Intensive Care Unit is a 32 bedded unit that cares for patients from a wide range of specialties including trauma, vascular and medicine.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health. You will need to have previous experience of working as a Critical Care nurse as a Band 5 or Band 6. You will need to have experience mentoring junior staff and be ready to take on a more senior role within our 32 bed Critical Care department.

Main duties of the job

We offer genuine opportunities to progress your career in Critical Care. In return we are looking for applicants who are hardworking, dynamic and excel in their communication skills. You will need to demonstrate a strong desire to be part of our department and have true passion to strive for excellent patient care.

By working with us we can offer you a multitude of career choices using the skills you have acquired so you can apply them in a number of other specialist roles including, clinical educator, outreach to support our former patients, organ donation or become an Advanced Nurse Practitioner or a Site Nurse Practitioner

You will be working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team in the heart of London. You will be living our values - kind, expert, collaborative and aspirational.

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 General Nurse.
• Teaching Qualification such as SSSA or Mentorship in Practice, or Equivalent experience.
• 60 Credit Critical Care Course.

Desirable criteria

• Leadership Qualification.

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Good basic IT skills including use of word,e-mail and internet services
• Ability to organise ward activities and to use initiative.
• Competency in medication -administration including IV medications.
• Skills required to undertake clinical activity related to speciality including completion of CC3N Step 1 - 3 competencies.
• Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit.
• Knowledge of the NMC Code of Conduct.

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

• Band 6 ITU JD and Specification (PDF, 315.3KB)
• Functional requirements (PDF, 240.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)