Sister/ Charge Nurse

Overview

Take your paediatric nursing career to the next level at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Based at St Mary\’s Hospital, a major acute and trauma centre for North West London, you\’ll join a forward-thinking team delivering high-quality care across two dynamic paediatric wards. You\’ll be working across two key areas: Great Western Ward and Westway Ward. Great Western Ward is a 22-25 bedded unit caring for children from neonates to young adults. As a specialist centre for trauma, infectious diseases and haematology, we manage complex cases and acute trauma admissions from ED, as well as step-downs from PICU and NICU. You\’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver expert care in a fast-paced environment. Westway Ward is our dedicated day surgery unit covering ENT, trauma and orthopaedics, ophthalmology, general surgery, and plastics amongst other ambulatory activity. This role offers excellent leadership development opportunities, including team management, rostering, MDT participation, pre-assessment clinics, and policy development within surgical specialities.

Responsibilities

• Providing high quality, effective and individualised nursing care to a variety of patients in a compassionate and caring way.
• Assessing care needs and developing, implementing and evaluating care plans without supervision.
• Helping to lead and monitor the performance of the nursing team.
• Deputising for the Senior Nurse as required.

Our Culture and Values

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 and Development

Clinical exposure includes high dependency care, respiratory, epilepsy, allergy/immunology, diabetes, mental health crisis, and more. We offer tailored training supported by clinical nurse educators, with access to leadership programmes, specialist courses (e.g. diabetes, EPALS, surgical pre-assessment), and quality improvement initiatives. 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.