Staff Nurse (Adult to Paediatric)

Job summary

Are you a registered Adult nurse with a desire to try something new? Do you have what it takes to turn your hand to Children's nursing? Do you want to work within a well-established, acute Paediatric team who are dynamic and forward thinking?

Here in Wolverhampton, for the first time ever we are offering adult nurses an opportunity to come and work on Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU). We provide services for children and young people with a wide variety of general and specialised medical and surgical conditions which all provide fantastic learning opportunities.

We will provide a comprehensive training and development package which will include undertaking a fundamentals of children's nursing course delivered by GOSH and eventually culminating in support to undertake a conversion course to register as a Children's nurse with the NMC.

We provide a holistic suite of services for babies, children and young people to enable them to receive the highest quality of care at the right time, delivered by the right staff and in the location where best suits their needs, in partnership with parents, carers and other multi-disciplinary team members.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to expand our committed and compassionate team to enable us to continue to develop the exceptional service that we provide, and to work towards having independent ward, surgery, outpatient and PAU (including Same Day Emergency Care) facilities due to growing demand and our ambition to always improve the services that we provide. Successful candidates will join our friendly, supportive teams led by Supervisory Senior Sisters / Service Managers / Team Leaders and be part of a nursing skill mix reflective of the acuity of the patient group.

We offer a very supportive and welcoming team and will ensure you receive all the training on induction to enable you to carry out the role safely ensuring excellent standards of care.

If you know your Disney characters, can sing a nursery rhyme or two and are happy to blow bubbles at every opportunity you may be the nurse for us!

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as"Good"by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly