Band 6 Senior Staff SCRUB Nurse - East Wing Cardiac Theatres

Band 6 Cardiac Theatres

A vacancy has arisen for a highly skilled and experienced Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner with a broad clinical background and demonstrable management skills in adult & paediatric cardiac surgery.

St Thomas is a friendly, supportive and welcoming environment based in central London.

We are proudly made up of a diverse workforce and highly specialised teams performing innovative surgery. We are committed to developing our staff and invest in helping them to attain their full potential.

Closing date: Midnight 28th August 2026

Interview Date: 9th September 2026

Main duties of the job

You will need to be an experienced Paediatric and Adult Cardiac trained nurse who is proactive, self-motivated, and has very strong interpersonal skills, with a vision for service improvement. You will be expected to actively coordinate, support, and assist in the management and delivery of high quality care to patients during the peri-operative phase of their care.

You will be expected to support East Wing Cardiac Theatre in conjunction with the existing band 6/ 7 team, with an expectation of support across the other various specialities within St Thomas Hospital depending on service requirement.

Person specification

Qualifications/Knowledge

Essential

• Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical training and CPD
• Post registration qualification in or demonstrate relevant experience and competence (appropriate area of speciality)
• BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience

Desirable

• Leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

• Previous post registration experience within the relevant specialty
• Experienced and competent in the management of patients within the speciality
• Experience of teaching/assessing/ supervising others in a clinical setting
• Experiencing of co-ordinating a shift
• Paediatric and Adult Cardiac Scrub experience

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrates specialist expertise underpinned by theory acquired through specialty specific CPD
• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues. Knowledge of evidence based practice.
• Good communication skills and ability to deal with sensitive information. To include dealing with distressed relatives, care of terminally ill & other challenging situations
• Demonstrates ability to influence and negotiate with others. Ability to organise and plan own time and that of junior staff and learners.
• You will be able decide how best to achieve expected results, whilst acting within clearly defined policies/ procedures and codes of conduct.
• Demonstrates an awareness of clinical governance and risk management and how this effects their role in the department

Professional/ Statutory Registration

Essential

• RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.

About the employer

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, all with a long history of clinical excellence, high quality care, innovation and research.

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 a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and as part of King's Health Partners, we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, research and teaching. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

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.