Band 5 Paediatric Staff Nurse

A Vacancy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

• Providing high quality nursing care and supporting team members to maintain best practice to all patients and visitors whilst following hospital and departmental policies.
• The safety of self, colleagues, patients and visitors in the Emergency Department.
• To support the emergency team, providing high quality nursing care.
• Sharing in and contributing to the management of the department.
• 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.
• Providing excellent nursing care.
Band 5 Staff Nurse - Children & Young Persons Emergency Department Are you looking for a challenge and excited by working in a fast-paced, dynamic emergency care environment? We are seeking enthusiastic Band 5 Registered Nurses to join our Children and Young Persons Emergency Department team. Our department provides care to a diverse patient group, ranging from minor illness presentations within our Urgent Treatment Centre through to major trauma cases within the Southwest London Major Trauma Centre. This offers an excellent opportunity to develop and consolidate a broad range of emergency nursing skills within a supportive and evolving service. This role is ideally suited to nurses who are keen to develop their career in emergency care and contribute to high-quality, patient-centred services within a busy acute setting. Please note:this post requires prior post-registration nursing experience in an acute clinical environment and is not suitable for student nurses or newly qualified nurses. Main duties of the role include:
• Delivering safe, effective, and high-quality nursing care to children and young people
• Supporting colleagues to maintain best practice across all areas of care delivery
• Working in accordance with hospital and departmental policies and clinical guidelines
• Promoting the safety and wellbeing of patients, visitors, colleagues, and self within the emergency department
• Contributing to a culture of teamwork, learning, and continuous improvement
Our Emergency Department is a friendly, supportive, and dynamic workplace that values staff wellbeing and strong teamwork in delivering high standards of care.

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010. St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.