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Job overview

• St George's hospital across the 4 sites is one of the country's leading teaching hospitals with an international reputation for quality of care, cutting-edge treatment, education and research.
• We provide general, specialist, and tertiary services locally and nationally to all age groups.
• We recognise that it is only possible to provide high quality healthcare if we are able to recruit the right staff.

Outpatients see on average 65,000 patients a month working with a large variety of specialities to provide the best possible patient experience.

We are looking for enthusiastic, vibrant Registered Nurses to join our Outpatient services based at Queen Mary’s Hospital but may be expected to work across the 4 sites.  You will need to be a dynamic and motivated NMC registered nurse and be able to show leadership in a clinical area. 

• New staff nurse development programme
• New starters band 5 engagement programme
• Overseas programme, lead by overseas nurse practitioner-networking and support
• Rotation programme
• In-house courses available
• 3month review and yearly IPR
• Minor-procedures within most specialities

For more information and/or an informal visit, please contact:        

Sister Catherine Logan or Sister Jenny Leech via switch board on 0 208487600 and ask for Bleep 045

Please note that our core hours are Monday – Saturday 8am to 8pm

Main duties of the job

• The Outpatient Department provides a variety of speciality clinics providing diagnostic and therapeutic outpatient care to the local community.
• The nursing service provides support for many clinics providing a large range of specialities including Surgical, medical, Paediatric, Dermatology, ENT, Ophthalmology, Retinal Screening, Minor Injuries, Rheumatology, One Stop Breast Clinic, Neurology, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Vascular, Haematology, Elderly Care, Renal, Pain Control, Endocrine and Incorporating Action in Urology.
• Many specialists nurse-led services provide the opportunity for all nurses to acquire new skills and knowledge.
• Leading and managing the team in the absence of the departmental sisters.

Working for our organisation

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.