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Job overview

• To provide the safest and highest quality environment for the practice of interventional cardiology, pacing and electrophysiology at all times. 
• Our priorities are patient safety, achieving the best clinical outcomes from the procedures that we perform and valuing the professionalism of the team that performs them.
• The post holder will work as part of the Cardiac Catheter Lab team assisting medical staff with diagnostic and interventional procedures. In this theatre style environment the nurse will have both scrub and circulating duties.
• There is a requirement to wear a lead coat during the procedures.  

Main duties of the job

Band 5 Staff Nurse - Cardiac Cath Labs

Maternity Leave Cover

Are you up for a challenge?

Do you want a change?

Do you want a career structure with an upwards trajectory?

If you are that individual come and join us, you won’t be sorry!

• We have 5 Cardiac Cath Labs and nurses are an important part of the multi-disciplinary team; we really hope that you would love to join us in our labs.
• We provide a full range of procedures here at St George’s including interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, pacing and TAVI.
• We are a primary PCI centre and are also the SW London arrhythmia centre.
• We can offer you support and professional development, you will work closely with our practice support nurse to develop a full range of competencies in both working as the scrub nurse and circulating nurse.
•  Once you are fully trained you will work as part of our on-call team providing emergency care to our most unwell patients – so come be part of a team that literally saves lives on a daily basis!

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, totaling 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.