Senior Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves supporting and deputising for the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse to ensure excellent nursing care and effective management of staff and resources. You will be responsible for the day-to-day management and coordination of the ward/department. The position also includes creating education and training opportunities for staff and students, acting as a child and family advocate, and providing unsupervised nursing care.
Essential criteria
- registered PAEDIATRIC NURSE
- mentorship/TEACHING and Assessing course
- b)Demonstrate an understanding of normal child development and the sick child
Desirable criteria
- Leadership course
- experience in undertaking appraisals
- Demonstrate sound written, numeric and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritise/adapt quickly and organise own workload and workload of more junior staff
- Recognise stress in self and others and demonstrate the ability to take effective action to manage the situation.
- Reliable and well-presented. Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to the needs of patient / parents / guardians / relatives and other staff
- QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING
- registered PAEDIATRIC NURSE
- mentorship/TEACHING and Assessing course
- b)Demonstrate an understanding of normal child development and the sick child
- Leadership course
- experience in undertaking appraisals
- Demonstrate sound written, numeric and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritise/adapt quickly and organise own workload and workload of more junior staff
- Recognise stress in self and others and demonstrate the ability to take effective action to manage the situation.
- Reliable and well-presented. Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to the needs of patient / parents / guardians / relatives and other staff
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Staff Nurse
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
- To support and deputise for the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse to ensure the provision of excellent nursing care and the effective management of staff and other resources.
- To carry out the day-to-day management and co-ordination of the ward/department.
- To ensure that there are education and training opportunities for all staff, including pre and post-registration students.
- Act as an advocate for child and family.
- Provide unsupervised nursing care.
Main duties of the job
- St George's Hospital is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4's '24 Hours in A&E' programme.
- The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.We also provide services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.
- As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist,
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