Job Description

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Band 6

Main area

Sister Surgical Ambulatory Care Unit

Grade

Band 6

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week (long days, weekends, (nights if dictated by service need))

Job ref

343-7303593-RB-SK

Site

St. Helier

Town

Carshalton

Salary

42,939 - 50,697 pa Inclusive of HCAS

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

18/07/2025 23:59

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.




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Job overview

We are really excited about the Sister roles that have been developed for SACU within our Surgical Directorate and Planned Care Division. As part of our ambitious agenda and on-going development of the service the post holders will be pivotal ion support exciting changes in the service with implementation of the new ACP roles. We are seeking to appoint exceptional leaders into the sister role on SACU at St Helier Hospital.



Are you a compassionate nurse? Are you enthusiastic, highly motivated, experienced and passionate about care? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for an outstanding and committed Sister (band 6) to support SACU within St Helier Hospital.



The successful candidate will be able to drive the clinical quality agenda; ensuring patients receive an outstanding experience within our care. We believe our senior nurses need to be pragmatic and ready to embrace change.



Surgical Ambulatory care unit strives to deliver high quality ambulatory surgical assessment service for all appropriate adult emergency general surgical and urological patients. We have a clear and ambitious vision to provide outstanding patient care and to become the best; we would like you to be part of this success.




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Main duties of the job

Our successful candidate will be someone who is highly engaged, with a desire to lead from the bedside and to set the tone for exceptional and high quality nursing care. We are looking for an experienced and ambitious nurse, with an ability to demonstrate good understanding of surgical care, who is able to lead, motivate and inspire and who is able to champion compassionate, high quality and dignified patient care.



If providing excellent nursing care, getting the basics right are important to you and you have a strong desire to support and develop others to become excellent at what they do, and if making a difference and doing the right thing is fundamental to you, we would love to hear from you to discuss this exciting opportunity further.




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Working for our organisation

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Junior Sister/Charge Nurse role at Epsom and St Helier.


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Person specification

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Qualification/Experience

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Essential criteria

NMC registered Post registration course in relevant speciality #####

Desirable criteria

Management leadership course ####

Experience

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Essential criteria

Good basic education Suitable experience preferable surgical #####

Desirable criteria

Experience managing budget ####

Skills

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Essential criteria

willingness to develop own practice #####

Desirable criteria

experience of using databases

Your application

: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References

: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We

do notaccept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date

: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting

: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS

: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.



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Disability Advice Line:

SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our

Confidential Disability Advice Line at:

Telephone: 02082963786

Text: 07501066267

Email: esth.dal@nhs.net.

Our confidential answering service is available after 5pm.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.