Job Description:
Senior Staff Nurse - Inpatient Wards
King Edward VII's Hospital, 5-10 Beaumont Street, Marylebone, London W1G 6AA
Permanent (37.5hrs) On-Site
Days, Nights & Weekends
Salary: Competitive + Fantastic Benefits

How you’ll help us make health happen.

King Edward VII’s Hospital is a 56‑bed private hospital in Marylebone with four operating theatres, delivering consultant‑led care across elective, day‑case, and inpatient surgery

An exciting opportunity is available for a Senior Staff Nurse, to join our well-established Nursing Team at the prestigious King Edward VII Hospital, working with the vision of delivering excellence in care and providing a culture of continuous learning for a highly motivated and compassionate nursing team.

This would be the ideal role for a nurse wishing to develop and extend both their managerial and leadership experience in clinical nursing. We offer a different approach to private healthcare and offer a variety of specialist treatments and complex procedures, which are simply not available from other providers

Key Responsibilities & Duties
As the Senior Staff Nurse, you will be expected to provide effective clinical leadership of the ward, ensuring that the nursing teams deliver safe, high-quality patient care, by delivering on our leadership strategy:

• To provide visible, inclusive and approachable clinical nurse leadership for nurses, patient and families in the ward areas whilst role modelling and living our values and behaviours, to ensure a positive and consistent experience for all staff and patients.
• Being responsible for managing risk and delivering on the key processes that underpin all services to colleagues, patients and other stakeholders.
• Taking responsibility for achieving our financial targets, through making efficiencies and taking the appropriate actions so we collectively generate a surplus across the hospital.
• Identifying and demonstrating quality improvement initiatives both within our teams and in collaboration with the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse that benefits our patients and colleagues
• Developing our self, our teams and being supportive and active within inclusive, safe learning culture to underpin our success and growth now and in future years.
• Deputising for the Ward Sister when required.
• Supporting the nursing leadership in the delivery of the key performance and quality indicators and to use the results to inform service and quality improvements projects.
• Promoting awareness and compliance amongst colleagues regarding Hospital policies, procedures, guidelines and standards and national standards including CQC frameworks.
• Carrying out planned care for a group/ ward of patients without direct supervision.
• Maintaining a safe ward environment ensuring Health and Safety guidelines are implemented and adhered to
• Ensuring the availability of appropriate resources for patient care through controlling ward stock
• Assisting in the teaching and development of nursing assistants, students and junior staff, helping them to achieve their learning outcomes
• Encouraging and supporting nursing staff to undertake personal and professional development.

Key Skills / Qualifications:

• Qualified RGN with current NMC registration
• Educated to Degree level in health-related subject or equivalent
• Minimum 2 years clinical experience in an acute healthcare environment.
• Good Communication Skills
• Basic IT skills
• Surgical Knowledge and Experience Previous shift leader experience

Benefits
At King Edward VII’s Hospital, we want to reward our staff for the amazing job that they do.

As part of the team, you will have access to a range of benefits for your work and home life.

We offer a variety of benefits that take into consideration how you commute to work, your health and well-being and recognising your service and any staff referrals you make to the Hospital.

Take a look at the full range of benefits on offer when working here:

• Annual leave entitlement of 25 days + bank holidays increasing with length of service
• In-house training for all staff
• Company pension scheme
• Interest free travel loan
• Private healthcare (Eligible after 12m)
• Bicycle Loan Scheme
• Retailer discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme

Part of a Globally Trusted Healthcare Group
When you join King Edward VII, you also become part of Bupa — a global healthcare leader with the scale, stability and expertise of a major international brand. Being backed by Bupa means access to an extensive network of clinical and operational specialists, shared best practice from across the organisation, and the support of well‑established systems that help you grow, develop and deliver exceptional care. Our size gives us strength, while our purpose keeps us personal.

We champion diversity and want our people to reflect the communities we serve. Everyone is encouraged to “Be you at Bupa”, and we actively welcome colleagues from all backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com