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Job summary

Main area
Paediatrics
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent: Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
290-WCCS-2287
Employer
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Mary's Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£37,259 - £45,356 pa inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
18/12/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust logo

Staff Nurse Great Western Ward

Band 5

 Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.  

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.  

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

 

 

Job overview

Ready to take your nursing career to the next level? At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, you’ll join one of the UK’s most dynamic paediatric teams across five world-class hospitals.

Whether you’re stepping into paediatrics for the first time or looking to progress and expand your skills, this is your chance to make a real impact while shaping your future.

On our vibrant 25-bedded Great Western Ward, every day brings variety and challenge. You’ll care for patients from neonates through to young adults, managing acute admissions from the emergency department, paediatric intensive care, and neonatal intensive care units at St Mary’s and Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea hospitals.

From complex cases to trauma, you’ll gain hands-on experience that builds confidence and sharpens your clinical expertise.

Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. You’ll work closely with critical care, ED, community nursing, and ambulatory care teams, supported by dedicated clinical nurse educators who tailor your training pathway and often work alongside you on the ward. Opportunities for development abound – from leadership programmes to specialist courses in diabetes and PILS, plus much more.

Your role will span a diverse range of paediatric medical and surgical services, including high dependency care, haematology, respiratory, allergy/immunology, diabetes, epilepsy, infectious diseases, mental health crisis, and acute trauma.

Main duties of the job

  • In partnership with the MDT develop individual programmes which provide measurable outcomes of patient care. The process should include assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care in accordance with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust policies. 
  • To lead the provision of care in accordance with St Mary’s NHS Trust Policies reflecting current trends and developments in nursing and the NHS.
  • To work towards regularly taking charge of the clinical area as required utilising appropriate support as necessary to ensure safe staffing levels are maintained. 
  • To delegate tasks and activities to a range of team members in relation to patient care. 
  • Ensure that nursing documentation is maintained to the Trust standards.
  •  In conjunction with the staff team contribute to developing and maintaining a ward /department philosophy and model of care. 
  • To demonstrate awareness and compliance with Trust policies, procedures, guidelines and standards. To work towards promoting this to others. 

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.  

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.  Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. 

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly,  part time or job share.  Please talk to  us at interview. .

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

 

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • RSCN/RN (child)
Desirable criteria
  • Level 3 safeguarding

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Experience of caring for sick patients in a variety of settings – this could be as a student
Desirable criteria
  • 6 months post registration experience in a ward environment
  • Experience caring for general paediatric child
  • Experience of change management – positive change agent
  • Experience working with newly qualified nurses and students

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to manage own patient workload
  • Knowledge of research and audit
  • Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
  • Ability to demonstrate application of the NHS Plan to own
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to take charge of a ward or part of a ward, delegate and supervise junior staff
  • Leadership skills
  • Competency in cannulation/ venepuncture

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Disability confident employerAccredited Living Wage EmployerNHS Rainbow Badge - BronzeWe Work Flexibly

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Natasha Addington
Job title
Ward Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02033127621
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