Senior Staff Nurse - Vascular
Accepting applications until: 09-Jun-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 09-Jun-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- St. Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: Vascular experienced
- 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
- Vascular
- Interview date
- 23/06/2025
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
Following the expansion of vascular services at Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, we are seeking experienced Band 6 Nurses to join our team on the vascular ward on the St Thomas’ site. If you want to work in a dynamic and fulfilling team environment then this job is for you.
You will be flexible and committed to maintaining and improving patient experience. You will have good organization skills and have experience of liaising with members of the multi-disciplinary team, as well as experience of supporting recruitment campaigns and interviews. You will also possess excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as good IT skills
Closing date: 09/06/2025 at Midnight
Interview date: 23/06/2025
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- Facilitate a high quality, cost effective specialist service through monitoring and audit and other quality initiatives agreed by the Trust
- Lead on and participate in key developments relating to the speciality so that high quality patient focused services are promoted.
- Enhance the interface between staff, patients, community staff and visitors
- Develop and utilise information systems to aid regular audit of the clinical role and to provide a quarterly incidence report for the Health Authority and an annual activity analysis and speciality report.
- Attend and participate in multi-professional team meetings.
- Set, monitor and review standards of care on a regular basis and initiate corrective action plans
- Identify and intervene where circumstances contribute to an unsafe environment for patients and staff. To bring instances to the attention of the Sister/Charge Nurse for the area
Working for our organisation
Our busy hospital, situated in the heart of central London, has a vascular facility which provide high quality care for patients with vascular disease. The department is the hub of the South East Thames Vascular Network. We provide emergency and elective vascular services to people living in south east London and Kent. We are a national tertiary referral centre for complex aortic disease specializing in endovascular and open surgery for aneurysms and aortic dissection. We also have a specialist interest in diabetic patients with vascular disease and have a group of surgeons, radiologists, physicians and podiatrists who provide multidisciplinary care for these patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care
- Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.
- Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and 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.
- Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
- Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
- To provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning delivery and evaluation of individualised care.
- Is 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.
- Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advance clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursing procedures to area.
- To be responsible, for maintaining a safe environment for patients, visitors and other staff within the clinical environment.
- Ensure that sensitive patient records are stored appropriately
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN1/RN2/RN12 Registered Nurse on the NMC register
- Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
Desirable criteria
- Post registration qualification in or demonstrate relevant experience and competence (Vascular)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Post registration course relevant to the speciality
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues. Knowledge of evidence based practice.
- Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experienced and competent in the management of patients within the speciality
- Experience of teaching/assessing/supervising others in a clinical settting
Values and Behaviour
Essential criteria
- Values and Behaviour
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dorcus Sihlangu
- Job title
- Ward Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071888842
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