Job overview

Are you a dedicated and motivated nurse/ODP with experience in cardiac and thoracic surgery? Do you have a passion for excellence, patient safety and high quality care? Join our expert and dynamic Cardiothoracic Team at St. George’s Hospital delivering exceptional care to patients . This is a rewarding opportunity to work alongside a multidisciplinary team committed to compassionate care, clinical excellence , safety and continuous improvement.

We are looking for compassionate professionals who are 

• able to prioritise in a busy clinical settings
• adaptable and enthusiastic
• assertive and confident in decision making
• strong communicators and effective team players
• capable of using their own initiative while maintain high standards of care 

Main duties of the job

We have 33  operating theatres between St George's and Queen Mary's Hospitals . Our staff work in teams and we are committed to keeping our focus on giving Outstanding Care, Every Time to our patients.  

The main duties of this job role is to providing excellent nursing care.  As skills and competencies develop,  taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the theatre area or department on a regular basis. 

• Setting, monitoring and maintaining excellent standards of nursing care in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
• Ensuring that nursing procedures are carried out in accordance to Trust's polices 
• As skills and competencies develop, taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the theatre area or on a regular basis.
• Supervising and mentoring junior staff.
• Working to support cardiothoracic theatres services  including on-call commitment.

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.