Band 6 Paediatric Charge Nurse/Sister

Job overview

To assist in the creation of a welcoming, caring and safe environment for children and families.

Band 6 Sister (RN child)

We are looking an enthusiastic, motivated, children’s nurse who enjoys working within a team of dedicated staff.

The assessment of child and family care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards of care as a shift leader or deputy shift leader

To take charge of the paediatric area in the absence of the person who has continuing responsibility or be a senior nurse on shift.

Main duties of the job

For this Sister/Charge Nurse post, we require an experienced candidate who is dedicated to the Child and Family advocating for high standards of care while in hospital and ensuring the child’s discharge is timely and effective.

Ifor ward is a busy general paediatric unit with children from 0-18 years providing a service for children who require acute medical and surgical care. We care for children with a varied range of conditions including haematology, oncology, infectious diseases, respiratory, surgical, orthopaedic, complex care and social problems.

You will also have an opportunity to develop oncology and haematological skills as we are a shared care POSCU. We have a two-bedded high dependency unit with a dedicated paediatric high dependency team. We have Clinical Nurse Specialists available for expert advice in paediatric diabetes, sickle cell, allergy, asthma and oncology as well as a Nurse Consultant.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical duties:

To set, monitor and maintain the highest standards of nursing care for the children with low and high dependency needs.

Standards should be: Acceptable, Achievable, Observable, Measurable

To assess, develop, implement and evaluate individual programmes of nursing care, supervising the programmes of care given by junior staff. This should be evidence based.

To actively support and promote the involvement of parents and carers in the management evaluation of care, by working together in partnership.

To act in a consultative capacity on paediatric matters when required.

To establish and maintain effective communication with nursing, medical, paramedical and ancillary colleagues in order to provide optimum child/family care.

To establish and maintain effective communication with the parents and relatives of the children to ensure that they have every assistance and support to enable them to cope with their child’s illness and hospitalisation.

To provide support and counseling for children, their parents and nursing staff as appropriate.

To liaise internally and externally with key staff in other departments to ensure that the specific needs and care of the child in hospital are identified and met.

To act as an effective role model to junior staff and students.

To demonstrate knowledge of clinical governance.

To be competent in the use of equipment necessary for the resuscitation and stabilisation of children with life threatening illnesses and injury.

To be competent in obtaining blood specimens for analysis i.e. SBR, capillary blood analysis and acting on the results where appropriate.