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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Senior Staff Nurse - Urology
Closed for applications on: 28-Apr-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 28-Apr-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's Hospital
- Address
- Great Maze Pond
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Secondment: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 p.a inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Urology
- Interview date
- 12/05/2025
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Staff Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team on Florence ward. We are looking for an experienced urology nurse with excellent knowledge and skills.
This is an ideal opportunity for development into a management and leadership position. The role of the Senior Staff Nurse is integral to the team and therefore strong leadership, communication skills and the ability and willingness to take on new challenges is paramount.
Ideally you should have attain a urology course , and a standard for student supervision and assessment (Mentorship) and a willingness to develop management and leadership experience.
Closing date: 27th April 2025
Advert
We are looking to recruit a Band 6 senior staff nurses to support and be responsible for day to day operational management of the unit, ensuring patients and their relatives receive high quality care through each stage of their treatment and post op recovery.
The urology inpatient unit comprises of two 26 bedded surgical wards which are co-located and well established and deliver care to male and female patients undergoing variety of specialized urological procedures and surgical interventions.
We are a specialized center for prostate, bladder, Kidney and testicular cancer as well as andrological surgery. Our services offer a variety of highly specialized urology surgery including Robotic, laparoscopic, transurethral and percutaneous and major surgery.
•To participate in the day to day management through effective coordination of the shift and the department through the delivery of high standard patient care ensuring patients and relatives are well informed of each stage of their surgical pathway and treatment on the ward.
•You will be expected to assist staff in promoting a positive working and learning environment to aid personal and professional development.
This is an excellent opportunity to enhance or consolidate on your clinical leadership skills within a supportive and innovative environment. There are opportunities to train, grow and become a highly specialized and competent clinical leader with advanced specialized skills in urology.
Working for our organisation
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 – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
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, teaching and research. 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 and GPs
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Lead the ward/Department team and build successful links between key professionals to support and promote effective multi-disciplinary team working in the day-to-day activities.
Manage the department nursing staff, ensuring the patients receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
Be wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve his / her knowledge and professional competence.
Communicate effectively and efficiently and liaise with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that patients receive seamless care within the trust.
Act as a professional nurse leader and role model to the staff. To apply clinical skills of the highest standard and to take a proactive approach to the development of clinical competence in self and others.
Maximise use of clinical resources, implementing best practice in patient flow, admission and discharge arrangements.
Develop and maintain effective channels of communication between all members of the multi disciplinary team.
To ensure the Ward manager is informed when changes to circumstances may affect safe competent practice.
Participate in nursing and multi professional research and audit and to implement actions identified from quality initiatives.
Lead and support the ward team through the process of change, demonstrating tenacity, drive, professional integrity, balance and perspective.
Deputise for the Ward Manager as appropriate
Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication including transfusion of blood
Responsible for the correct administration of blood products.
Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same.
Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Value and behaviour
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching/assessing/ supervising others in a clinical setting
- Previous post registration experience within the relevant specialty
Skills
Essential criteria
- An understanding of resource management
- Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
- Communication skills
- Ability to organise and plan own time and that of junior staff and learners.
- An understanding of audit and research based nursing practice.
Qualifications/ Education
Essential criteria
- BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Mentorship/Teaching Qualification
- Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
- Post registration qualification in or demonstrate relevant experience and competence (appropriate area of speciality)
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification (e.g. LEO)
Professional/ Statutory Registration
Essential criteria
- RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jier Prado
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020718855421
- Additional information
Nhima Fati ([email protected]) - Urology Matron
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