Band 7 Sister / Charge Nurse - Paediatric Surgical Services

This post is for a band 7 Ward Sister in the paediatric surgical directorate for Savannah Surgery and Orthopaedics.

The successful candidate willhave knowledge regarding governance and its importance in promoting and maintaining a safe and quality driven environment for patients, visitors and staff.

Joining a forward thinking, patient centred team you will play a lead role in making a positive difference to our patients journey through strong leadership and direction to the team, monitoring and maintaining standards of care and professional practice to support day to day efficient running of the unit.

You'll need to be able to take the lead and act on your own initiative, to assess and plan how to meet goals and objectives for yourself, staff and other service users. You will have excellent communication skills and demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively and professionally with families and within the multidisciplinary team, both verbally and in writing.

You will act as a role model and provide development, clinical supervision and advice for other staff and students to support them in reaching their full potential

You will be warmly welcomed and well supported by a fantastic team who are passionate and aspire to provide excellent care.

We are seeking to recruit an experienced, dynamic and innovative paediatric nurse who will bring excellent clinical skills and knowledge, and a desire to maintain a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. You should have an evidence of prior leadership and management and uphold professional standards.

We passionately believe in promoting care and compassion to all our patients and provide a holistic child and family-centered approach to all the children and young people in our care.

If you are a highly-motivated nurse and would like the opportunity to join our specialist team, and lead on innovative and please join us.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.