Children's Nurse (Band 5)

Job overview

We are looking for band 5 Paediatric trained nurses or soon to qualify students to join our enthusiastic and friendly department. If you have a positive attitude to ensuring children receive the best possible care, we'd love to hear from you.

Working with us will provide you with a broad range of skills and experiences which will help in your career progression.

Following significant investment in our paediatric nurse staffing we are delighted to confirm that our newly agreed work force model aligns to RCN staffing recommendations for CYP including supernumerary nurse in charge.

This will enable you to be supported in practice and help you to provide quality care to your patients. You will also be supported to develop your knowledge and skills in providing acute paediatric care through our dedicated paediatric practice educator and preceptorship programme. Our workforce model will also flex to meet demands of the service over winter and summer by increasing the number of staff who can take annual leave over the summer months (March to September).

The post will involve nursing children on elective day case lists, acute inpatient admissions as well as children in our assessment area.

Full Time - 37.5 hours Permanent

Main duties of the job

• To assess patient’s needs, plan, implement and evaluate care in accordance with the Children’s Charter.
• To maintain contemporaneous, accurate and precise documentation relating to patient care
• To work within national, regional and local guidelines relating to nursing practice
• To take every reasonable opportunity to maintain existing clinical expertise and develop new skills as appropriate
• To participate in a programme of formal clinical supervision
• In all these respects to perform as a role model for junior staff

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the attached documents which provide further details including job description and person specification.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.