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Job overview

• We are looking for an RN or ODP to take on a Team leader role  for the inpatient anaesthetic team   at   St. George’s Hospital.
•  Our mission is to deliver outstanding care at all times to patients treated in our operating theatres and to do that, we need exceptional people.
• To act as the professional role model, leading and co-ordinating the nursing team. 
• To have continuous responsibility for the management & organisation of the ward/department.
• To be accountable for the overall provision of excellent nursing care and to work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• The successful post holder will have the prime responsibility for leading the team, working to promote a positive culture of collaborative working, providing professional leadership and skilled knowledge.
• Working alongside our other team leaders, reporting to the Matron, your duties will include but not limited to leading clinical shifts, investigating adverse incidents, planning and implementing actions to ensure learning is shared across the department, undertaking quality audits, roster management, budget management and recruitment.
• You will have the motivation, vision and leadership qualities necessary to lead a safe, productive and efficient anaesthetic  team.
• As a key member of the team, you will have the ability to support, teach and develop junior staff and facilitate the delivery of high standards of patient care in the operating theatres.
• You will be a team player, empathetic and able to remain calm and composed under pressure.
• This role also requires reassuring manner and the understanding of the rights, privacy & dignity and safeguarding of all patients.

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.