Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

Are you an experienced and highly motivated Band 5 or an existing band 6 looking for a new challenge? Can you lead a group of enthusiastic Registered Nurses? Are you passionate in teaching and developing others to achieve their full potential? Then we want to hear from you?

This is an exciting opportunity to join and lead a dynamic team within Surgery. In return we can offer you a wide range of professional development. These include work based learning, shadowing and mentoring. Our motivated Matrons and Senior Sisters can provide you a comprehensive induction program. This will give you an opportunity to shadow some of our specialist nurses. 

Main duties of the job

We are looking for dynamic individuals to help take the department forward. We pride ourselves that the patients are at the heart of everything we do. You will possess excellent communication skills and be clinically competent in the care of the surgical patient. A strong interest in developing new staff and a proactive approach to delivery of high standards of evidence based care are essential components to this post.

Astor Ward is a 30 bedded emergency surgical ward that aims to deliver the best possible care to our General Surgery, Urology, Colorectal, Gynaecology and Upper GI patients.

Working for our organisation

Your growth and personal happiness matters to us.  After all, we can't expect the best from you if we don't invest in your development and nurture your wellbeing.  From the moment you join us,  we're committed to fostering your professional and personal development with a supportive, empowering environment.  Whether you're just starting your career or looking to advance further, we provide you with the tools and opportunities you need to succeed.  We actively support colleagues to take part in research, quality improvement and innovation, whatever their role or level in the organisation.

To support your wellbeing, we offer an extensive range of resources, including on-site staff nursery at Kingston Hospital, wellbeing practitioners, regular wellbeing classes, dedicated staff physiotherapist, comprehensive occupational health services, 24/7 employee assistance programme,  and a range of other support and activities. 

We also take every opportunity to thank and recognise the work our teams do, through weekly "shoutouts" and patient feedback, monthly and staff awards.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it's our behaviours that tell people who we are.  We expect all colleagues to bring values to life in their work.

• Compassionate
• Inclusive
• Collaborative
• Inspiring