# Staff Nurse - PICU > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/staff-nurse-picu/1fee36b2-2ea5-4a2f-9b35-ba0013fa1d96 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/staff-nurse-picu/1fee36b2-2ea5-4a2f-9b35-ba0013fa1d96.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Great Ormond Street Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Staff nurse - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £38,488 - £46,852 pro rata per annum inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (Mix of long days, nights and weekends.) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-16T14:25:40.215Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Great_Ormond_Street_Hospital_Children_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Paediatric_Intensive_Care/Paediatric_Intensive_Care-v8181553 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8181553?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gosh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit is a 17-bedded acute unit providing care for critically ill children from birth up to 18 years. As a tertiary centre, we care for a wide range of Level 3 and HDU patients across multiple specialties, including neurology, metabolic medicine, oncology, respiratory, genetics, and post-surgical cases. Patients are admitted via specialist paediatric transport services, internal ward collapses, and following surgical interventions. Working on PICU provides you with a unique and rewarding opportunity to gain experience across a broad spectrum of clinical presentations and develop advanced critical care skills. You will be supported through a dedicated foundation programme which includes nine structured study days covering key topics such as respiratory, cardiac, and neurological. You will also be part of a large, sociable, and supportive team of over 120 staff, all committed to delivering excellent patient care while supporting each other’s development and wellbeing. This is an excellent opportunity for nurses who are passionate about paediatric critical care and looking to build a strong foundation within a world-leading children’s hospital. What can we offer you? * Structured induction and ongoing clinical training and competency development * Exposure to complex medical and surgical conditions and advance life support therapies * Opportunity to develop new skills involving the management of deteriorating patients, advanced airway management, chest drains, and inotropes. * Support and shared learning from experienced colleagues and a dedicated education team * Career progression into senior nursing, leadership, education, and specialist clinical roles * Self-rostering If you have applied to this role within the last 3 months, we kindly ask that you do not reapply at this time. ### 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 participate in informal and formal teaching. - 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills/Abilities **Essential** - Ability to plan and prioritise care for patients - Committed to family centred care - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Excellent numeracy skills - Good time management and teaching skills - Ability to work well both in a team and on own Initiative - Ability to delegate tasks as appropriate - Demonstrates Compassion in practice ### Experience/Knowledge **Essential** - Significant post registration nursing experience of having worked with acute/chronically sick children or specialised transferable skills (eg. intensive care, accident & emergency or specialist service) - Understanding of professional and current issues in children’s nursing - Understanding of the importance of research and evidence-based practice - Basic knowledge of computer skills - Understanding of safeguarding issues according to Trust policies and procedures - Understating or evidence of fulfilling requirements for Revalidation - Understanding of principles of clinical governance (e.g. risk management, audit, quality) - Experience of working as part of a diverse team - Experience of contributing to an inclusive workplace culture **Desirable** - Understanding of nursing practice and innovation outside of GOSH - Knowledge of clinical incidents and complaints and reporting - Previous experience in the relevant specialty of post (preferably in an NHS setting) - Knowledge of ward specialties ### GOSH Culture and Values **Essential** - Collaboration - We work together to deliver safe, consistent, patient-centred care. Respect - We treat everyone with respect, kindness and equity. Curiosity - We stay curious to drive innovation that delivers exceptional patient outcomes ### Academic/Professional qualification/Training **Essential** - Relevant nursing qualification - NMC registered children’s nurse with a minimum of at least one year post qualifying Or NMC adult nurse with minimum of one year working in Intensive care/A&E/ Paediatric ward (experience must be within the last two years) Or Able to join the NMC child branch register for candidates educated outside of the UK - Evidence of ongoing professional development linked to demonstrable competencies **Desirable** - Assessor or practice supervisor qualification/experience ## Documents - [our gosh values (pdf, 516.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3097) - [staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 108.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2815) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 696.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10681937) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.