# Senior Staff Nurse

**Company**: The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Band 6 Registered Nurse to join our team on St Elizabeth Ward, a 16-bed surgical ward providing care for both day case and surgical inpatients.

The ward cares for patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery as well as those requiring care across a range of specialties, including Breast, Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, ENT, General Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, Orthopaedic and Spinal, Urology.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated nurse who is passionate about delivering high-quality, safe and evidence-based patient care and who is ready to take on a senior clinical and leadership role.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Assess care needs and develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care with the multidisciplinary team and patients' families

- Promote a progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research and evidence-based practice

- Undertake delegated responsibility for the department in the absence of the Ward Manager, including supervision of more junior staff

- Apply advanced clinical skills to assist in performing safe effective care for patients

**Person Specification:**

- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration

- Relevant clinical experience and the confidence to work as part of a senior nursing team

- Extensive experience at Band 6 already

- Demonstrable practice that is evidence-based and up to date

- Experience of working with teams, motivating and empowering them to deliver excellent standards of patient care

- Experience of identifying and dealing with risks encountered within own practice

- Experience of supporting junior / less experienced staff to improve standards of patient care

- Able to support less experienced / junior staff to respond to feedback in a positive manner setting objectives as required

**Salary:** Negotiable

**Contract:** Permanent

**Working Pattern:** Full-time

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## Skills

### Required
- NMC registration
- Band 6 experience
- Evidence-based practice
- Leadership skills
- Communication skills

### Nice to have
- Extensive experience at Band 6
- Demonstrable practice that is evidence-based and up to date
- Experience of working with teams

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