Paediatric Staff Nurse - Paediatric Emergency Department
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
The closing date is 01 December 2024
Job summary
Are you a Paediatric Nurse with experience looking after children and are committed to providing excellent care? Do you have a desire to develop as a professional with a friendly, kind and supportive team to guide you on your journey? If this is you, come and join our team.
Main duties of the job
- Promote and set high standards of nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust policies, protocols and guidelines.
- Provide and deliver a high standard of evidence-based nursing care through the assessment, planning, and evaluating of individual patients needs based on evidence.
- Initiate and co-ordinate care in the clinical area for a specified group of patients.
- Recognise and respond to a change in patient status undertaking first line interventions within scope of practice and refer on to the appropriate clinician as required.
- Actively promote safe and effective working practices to prevent harm to the patients within your care and take part in safety audits to maintain high quality standards.
- Communicating and working with the multidisciplinary team to improve quality of care, and informed clinical decisions.
- Promote innovation and share any new ideas to improve patient care.
- Participate in the allocation of workload and ensure efficient bed management and effective patient flow
About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We care for children from 0 through to their 18th birthday, with a variety of needs which will increase your knowledge and skills and keep you challenged. We care for children who are ill or injured ranging from minor illness to major trauma.
We are currently in the process of building a brand new Emergency Department that is due to open later this year.
It is essential that the nurse applying has a NMC Paeds PIN, so is on the NMC register as a children's nurse. At this time we unfortunately cannot accept adults nurses that only have and adult NMC pin.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We care for children from 0 through to their 18th birthday, with a variety of needs which will increase your knowledge and skills and keep you challenged. We care for children who are ill or injured ranging from minor illness to major trauma.
We are currently in the process of building a brand new Emergency Department that is due to open later this year.
It is essential that the nurse applying has a NMC Paeds PIN, so is on the NMC register as a children's nurse. At this time we unfortunately cannot accept adults nurses that only have and adult NMC pin.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current RN registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
- BSc Degree in relevant field
- Paediatric NMC registration
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of recent CPD
- An awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area
Desirable
- Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system
Additional criteria
Essential
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Teaching and mentoring skills
- Team building skills
- Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others
- Organisational skills and able to work as part of a team
- Able to support development of others
- Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
- Health promotion
- Ability to adapt to change within working situation
- Advocacy skills
- Strong customer service skills
Desirable
- Clinically competent at Band 5.
- Intravenous Therapy Skills
- Mentors Course
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current RN registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
- BSc Degree in relevant field
- Paediatric NMC registration
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of recent CPD
- An awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area
Desirable
- Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system
Additional criteria
Essential
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Teaching and mentoring skills
- Team building skills
- Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others
- Organisational skills and able to work as part of a team
- Able to support development of others
- Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
- Health promotion
- Ability to adapt to change within working situation
- Advocacy skills
- Strong customer service skills
Desirable
- Clinically competent at Band 5.
- Intravenous Therapy Skills
- Mentors Course
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
