Job summary
- Main area
- Diabetes and Endocrinology
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 200-5833714-MA-SC-A
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- ST Georges hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £35,964 - £43,780 per annum inc HCAS (Pro rata basis)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Clinic Nurse Band 5
Band 5
*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
Job overview
Diabetes and Endocrine Service St George’s University Hospital NHS Trust
37.5 hours Permanent Post
Band 5 Registered Nurse
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a caring and enthusiastic, Registered nurse to join our friendly and hardworking team within the Diabetes and Endocrine Unit at St George’s University Hospital.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and skills in caring for patients with both Diabetes and Endocrine conditions. Applicants must possess excellent communication skills; have a flexible working approach and a willingness to work as part of a forward thinking team.
As skills and competencies develop, they will be expected to actively participate in and contribute to the day to day activities of the department by supervising, supporting and mentoring students and HCA’s and assisting with the Flash Glucose monitoring (Free Style Libre)
Please note informal visit is highly Recommended
For further details or an informal visit please contact:
Orleas Mullings
Lead Nurse Diabetes and Endocrinology
0208 725 0935
Main duties of the job
To provide outstanding care to patients all of the time. As skills and competencies develop, taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the day to day activities of the department. Supervising, supporting and mentoring students and HCAs. Assisting with the Flash Glucose monitoring (Free Style Libre)
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
Previous Applicants need not apply.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Phlebotomy experience – or willing to be trained
- Supervising / assisting in the patient pre assessment
Desirable criteria
- 1 year post qualification experience.
- Assisting with Free style Libre pathway
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care according to individual needs.
- Ability to effectively prioritise workload and patient care needs.
- Basic IT Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of research and evidence based practice.
- Able to explain the principles of mentoring and assessing junior staff.
- Understands the importance of developing self and others.
- Understanding of managing resources
- Understanding of clinical risk.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of audit
- Ability to take on small research or audit project
Other
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates enthusiasm for the speciality.
- Able to evidence the trust values.
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Orleas Mullings
- Job title
- Lead Nurse Diabetes and Endocrinology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 725 0935
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