Senior Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This is an exciting part-time, permanent opportunity for a Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse to join A7, a 25-bedded cardiology ward including a 5-bedded CCU. The role involves providing strong clinical leadership, ensuring high-quality patient care, and playing a key role in service improvement and staff development. You will act as a clinical role model in a fast-paced environment, caring for patients with various cardiac conditions.
Key responsibilities
- Provide high quality, effective, individualised nursing care to patients by assessing their needs and developing, implementing and evaluating care plans without supervision.
- Liaise appropriately with all key members of the multi-disciplinary team and service users related to the speciality.
- Be responsible for all aspects of patient care including assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of direct patient care with supervision from senior staff.
- Support the ward manager to monitor the safety and quality of care for patients, maintaining accurate clinical observations.
- Manage a group of staff nurses and healthcare support workers within their shifts, assigning delegated tasks and responsibility as appropriate.
- Assist in the teaching and development of the nursing team, healthcare support workers and pre-registration students.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse - Valid NMC PIN
- Minimum of 4 years acute cardiology and 3 years CCU experience
- Relevant Specialist course CCU/HDU
- Practice Supervisor/Assessor qualification
- Significant experience of caring for level 1 and 2 patients in a coronary care setting or heart attack centre.
- Ability to manage a group of level 1 and 2 patients independently
- Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams
- NIV/CPAP training/experience
- Low dose Inotrope support
- Clear understanding of complex cardiac arrhythmia's and treatment
- Pre and Post interventional procedure care
- Ability to manage complex discharges, supporting the team with providing end of life/palliative care needs, managing safeguarding concerns, managing patients
- Good clinical skills and a commitment developing them further
- A knowledge of care planning, preceptorship, reflection and clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Educated to Degree level
- Advanced ECG Course
- Bed Management
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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Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Senior Staff Nurse
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
Are you ready to take the next step in your cardiology nursing career? We are offering an exciting part time, permanent opportunity for a band 6 senior staff nurse to join A7 and lead by example in our busy and rewarding unit.
A7 is a 25 bedded cardiology ward incorporating a 5 bedded CCU (level 2 care) and 20 step down beds with cardiac monitoring and telemetry. We care for patients admitted from the Heart Assessment Centre, London Ambulance Service, tertiary referrals and ED, with conditions including acute myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, pulmonary hypertension, and post procedural cases such as TAVI and MitraClip. We also support step downs from ITU requiring ongoing specialist cardiology management.
As a Senior Staff Nurse, you will:
- Provide strong clinical leadership, supporting and inspiring junior colleagues.
- Ensure safe, high quality, evidence based patient care.
- Play a key role in service improvement, staff development, and patient experience.
- Act as a clinical role model in a fast paced, collaborative environment
We're looking for someone who:
- Has substantial experience in cardiac or acute care.
- Demonstrates excellent communication, organisational and leadership skills.
- Is committed to developing both their own practice and
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