# Senior Staff Nurse

**Company**: The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Depending on experience
**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:**

- To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care with the multidisciplinary team and patients' families

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

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

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

**Person Specification:**

- We are seeking a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration who has relevant clinical experience and the confidence to work as part of a senior nursing team.

- You will ideally have:

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Registered Nurse
- NMC registration
- evidence-based practice
- leadership skills

### Nice to have
- Band 6 experience
- experience of working with teams
- motivating and empowering staff

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