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Salary We are looking for adult nurses to support the emergency team, providing high quality nursing care. Sharing in and contributing to the management of the department.
We have multiple roles on offer in our Emergency Department. You would gain experience in our refurbished Resus, Majors, Children's area and our newly built Urgent Treatment Centre.
Are you looking for a new challenge for 2023 and excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative environment?
St. George’s Emergency Department is one of the largest in the country, seeing approximately 160, 000 patients a year. The department sees a wide variety of patients from minor injuries to major traumas. The Trust is one of only four designated Major Trauma Centres in London, with a helipad providing direct access to the ED for the most seriously injured patients. The Trust also has a hyper-acute stroke unit and a heart attack centre.
We are seeking enthusiastic nurses at Band 5 level ideally with 6 months post registration experience to join our Emergency Department team.
This is an excellent opportunity to expand your skills and be part of an evolving and developing service. We are a very friendly department offering flexible working opportunities. The department is also committed to supporting on-going professional development with strong links to academic programmes and a well-established work-based development programmes supported by our Practice Development team.
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
