Staff Nurse in Respiratory

Job overview

Why Join Us? At Great Ormond Street, we believe our children and young people are at the heart of everything we do. You’ll be joining a forward-thinking organisation committed to delivering outstanding patient care while supporting staff development and wellbeing.

As a Band 5 Staff Nurse, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality, safe, and compassionate care to our patients. You will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to ensure that patient needs are met effectively and holistically. You’ll be joining a large team across the two GOSH Respiratory Wards (Leopard and Kangaroo), which focuses on children and young people requiring respiratory medicine acutely and chronically. It has 23 beds, including a high-dependency unit (HDU), dedicated beds for children and young people with cystic fibrosis and transitional care beds for long term ventilated children and young people. You work will help maintain excellent patient outcomes and a positive, supportive ward culture.

We’re looking for individuals who are as committed to excellence in care as we are.

Grow Your Career With Us Looking to build on your existing experience, this role offers fantastic opportunities to develop your clinical expertise, knowledge, and continuing professional development (CPD).

Apply Now Be part of a team that makes a difference every day. Apply today and take the next step in your nursing career.

Main duties of the job

• To provide the highest standard of nursing care for the children, young people and their families at all times
• To plan, assess, implement and evaluate programmes of care for individual children and to supervise other staff in this activity
• To ensure an ongoing welcoming, caring and safe environment is provided for the children, young people and their families
• To act as an advocate for the child, young person and family, providing them with information and support and directing them to the relevant support services where appropriate
• To supervise and support members of the ward team as required, ensuring that all patients receive appropriate care
• To ensure that treatments prescribed by the medical staff are carried out, and that multidisciplinary team members are informed of changes in the patient’s condition.
• To actively assist in the education and practical training of learners and junior staff at every opportunity. To work in co-operation with their university in order to provide uniformity and promotion of professional standards
• To maintain confidentiality surrounding the child’s or young person’s admission and treatment at all times
• To ensure that all patient care is documented, and that all relevant documentation is completed accurately and within agreed timescales using Trust approved documentation, in line with NMC, CQC and Trust standards.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

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.