Band 6 Senior Staff SCRUB Nurse - East Wing Cardiac Theatres

You will need to be an experienced Paediatric and Adult Cardiac trained nurse who is proactive, self-motivated, and has very strong interpersonal skills, with a vision for service improvement. You will be expected to actively coordinate, support, and assist in the management and delivery of high quality care to patients during the peri-operative phase of their care.

You will be expected to support East Wing Cardiac Theatre in conjunction with the existing band 6/ 7 team, with an expectation of support across the other various specialities within St Thomas Hospital depending on service requirement.

A vacancy has arisen for a highly skilled and experienced Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner with a broad clinical background and demonstrable management skills in adult & paediatric cardiac surgery.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield, all with a long history of clinical excellence, high quality care, innovation and research.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and as part of King's Health Partners, we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, research and teaching. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies.