# Paediatric Nurse-Children's Outpatient Dept

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Royal Lancaster Infirmary
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-19T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05T08:01:33.280Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cumbria/Lancaster/University_Hospitals_Morecambe_Bay_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Paediatrics/Paediatrics-v8219655
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8219655?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Do you consider caring with compassion to be fundamental to your role? Looking for a new career path in one of the most picturesque parts of the country? Are you a student looking to take up your first post or qualified nurse looking for a new challenge? Then Morecambe Bay is just the place for you, offering the beautiful Lake District on your doorstep. Our Trust is recruiting enthusiastic, highly motivated nurses to join our dynamic, dedicated, forward thinking professional team which serves a wide geographical area with rural and urban communities.

The services we provide: Children’s Inpatient, Day Care, Assessment and Outpatients.

Our Children’s inpatient services provide compassionate care for Children and Young People from 0 to 16 years of age across two busy sites, Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Furness General Hospital. The units provide care for a mixture of specialities and for a wide range of conditions including High Dependency Care.

### Main duties of the job

The units encompass inpatient, day care and assessment services for our communities. We also have dedicated Children’s Out-Patient departments on both sites. This ensures a rich variety of experiences and development for our staff.

You will be reliable, flexible, motivated, have excellent clinical skills, a commitment to ongoing learning and development, a commitment to delivering high quality care, and be willing and open to embracing positive change and transformation in order to meet the demands of the community we serve.

You will care for children, young people and families who are being admitted for assessment, elective or emergency surgery, investigations and treatment, including those requiring high dependency care and will plan and evaluate together with other members of the MDT, ensuring the best possible outcomes for the child, young person, or family, maintaining a high standard of contemporaneous documentation.

You will work within the Nursing and Midwifery Code and adhere to local guidelines and policies, and complete training requirements.

You will work alongside the safeguarding team and follow local safeguarding policy.

If this sounds like you, then we want to hear from you!

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Application Form

**Essential**

- Registered Children's Nurse
- Relevant pre-registration experience of working with babies and children
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of establishing effective communication
- Demsonstratable appropriate skills in nursing for babies and children
- Basic life support skills
- Willingness to advance competencies
- Basic IT Skills
- NMC Regulations
- Awareness of current child health and neonatal issues
- Child Protection Awareness
- Up to date knowledge of legislation pertaining to children and young people
- Awareness of clinical governance agenda
- Awareness importance of preceptorship and supervision

**Desirable**

- Mentoring/assessing qualification

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 996.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10610367)
- [people strategy (pdf, 109.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2942)
- [lgbt network leaflet (pdf, 226.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1741)
- [person specification (pdf, 214.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10610368)
- [access to work information sheet (pdf, 172.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2427)
- [furness general hospital accessibility plan (pdf, 174.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1024)
- [royal lancaster infirmary accessibility plan 2017 (pdf, 170.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1025)
- [westmorland general hospital hospital accessibility plan (docx, 112.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1026)

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