Clinical Sister/Charge Nurse - Paediatric Emergency Department

Job overview

Clinical Sister / Charge Nurse - Paediatric Emergency Department

Division: Medicine and Emergency Care

Care Group: Emergency & Acute

Band: 6

Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for a Clinical Sister / Charge Nurse who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will provide high quality care for infants, children and young people who present with a range of clinical presentations from minor injuries to the child requiring rapid stabilisation in the resuscitation environment.

You will be a role model to junior staff members and to share skills, knowledge and experience with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

As a Sister/Charge nurse you support and guide the development of the team and service to ensure that we provide safe and effective care to our patients.

In addition you will take charge of the Paediatric Emergency Department by managing flow through the department and referral to other services as appropriate.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Children's ED has many development opportunities for the band 6 role. All staff will complete the Misti course and online ERMER training,

EPLS/APLS will be essential and training is available in the trust, there are regular STRS training /sim days.

Academic level 6 and 7 training available in line with development of job roles.

We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic, caring and experienced children’s nurse to join our team.

The Children’s Emergency Department at Medway Maritime Hospital currently sees more than 30, 000 children per year. We have a completely separate Children’s ED, which provides care for all children and young persons under the age of eighteen years.

The team consists of a Matron, Band 7, Band 6 (clinical sisters), Band 5 staff nurses and senior clinical support workers. We have a dedicated Senior Play Specialist, who supports the nursing and medical teams and we have the Emerge Advocacy Service and youth workers.

There is also a separate team of dedicated Children’s Emergency Department Doctors that are supported by junior members of the main Emergency department medical team.

Our team aims to ensure that all children have a high standard of emergency care, that is research based, current and most importantly child and family focused. We encourage staff to bring forward new ideas and embrace change positively. Our department positively welcomes external inspectors and we are currently proud to be assessed as GOOD by the care quality commission.

We have a close working relationship with both the Emergency Department and paediatric multidisciplinary teams and have departmental governance days and team training days. We encourage education and are always looking at new courses to improve our skills, time is allocated.

We are able to send staff on external study days for critical care, burns and safeguarding.  Study time is provided for development and academic courses can be funded for enhancement of roles, including advanced life support courses (EPLS/APLS)

As a charge nurse you would be expected to have knowledge of caring for children that attend with a wide range of conditions. You would be required to lead a team of nurses on the shift, providing support to junior colleagues and students. You should be able to provide care for children and young persons with mental health concerns, safeguarding issues, minor injuries and critical care presentations.