Senior Staff Nurse - Emergency Department; Band 6

Senior Staff Nurse
- Emergency Department (Band
6)
Band 6

Main area Nursing Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Whittington Hospital
- Accident & Emergency Level 5 Town London Salary £47,951 - £56,863 Per Annum Including HCAS (pro rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 08/09/2026 23:59

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

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This post is not suitable for newly qualified Nurses

The Whittington Emergency Department (ED) serves the diverse local community of North London. Our CQC inspection in January 2020 praised the teamwork displayed amongst our staff who support each other to provide good care.

We provide high quality emergency care and maintain an above average performance. We are a dedicated trauma unit as part of the North East London and Essex Trauma Network.

We have very strong nursing leadership and can offer support from our substantial senior team including two ED Matrons, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Paediatric Lead Nurses, and 2 dedicated and innovative practice development nurses.

You will be given the opportunity to rotate through the department including the following:

our 4 bedded resuscitation room caring for critically unwell patients

developing your skills in minor injury in our Urgent Treatment Centre

Majors where we assess and treat the majority of ambulance patients

the fast paced Rapid Assessment Area where investigations are initiated

you will also gain knowledge and skills in caring for unwell children under the supervision of our team of paediatric nurses

Due to internal promotions we are pleased to have vacancies for Senior Staff Nurses in our Emergency Department. If you are passionate about delivering excellent nursing care and looking to work as part of a dynamic team we are looking for you!

The senior staff nurse is a highly skilled practitioner who is able to work as the senior nurse in all areas of the department. They will also be expected to take charge of an area of the department and develop shift leader competencies under supervision.

We regularly offer places on ILS, ALS, ATNC, APLS, Physical Assessment or ENP courses. To support your leadership development the trust offers many in house courses such as the icare leadership course as well as external accredited courses.

Applicants will demonstrate experience of working in all areas of ED. All records of courses attended or competencies achieved must be brought to interview.

Post holders would be expected to rotate onto nights and weekends as part of a four-week rota basis. Flexible working will be considered as part of the trust values

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual…