Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Registered nurse with proven clinical and management credibility within Children's services to be appointed to a senior leadership role, to support and enable Children services in delivering high standards of quality, safe care and patient experience. If you are professionally tenacious, appropriately qualified, motivated and looking for your next opening to influence Children's care, a safety culture and ensure a high standard of delivery of care is delivered to all children and their families, then this is a fantastic opportunity to join the team of dedicated senior medical colleagues and children staff
Main duties of the job
Are you an experienced, motivated and passionate Children's nurse with proven experience as a band 7? Do you want to work within a supportive senior Children's nursing team? Do you want to ensure all children get a high quality and safe service? Then this may be the right job for you to join our team in the Children's services in East Kent Hospital. Along with a Quality Improvement Matron, a Governance Matron and a designated Practice development team an exciting opportunity has arisen to become the acute Child Health Matron on our children's ward in Ashford. This post will work alongside the Matron in our Margate hospital to ensure a visible senior presence on each of our acute sites and strengthen the senior support to our dedicated team of children's nurses, and skilled Health care assistants' nurses.
Provide a visible, authoritative and effective presence for Children's Nursing. Provide assistance, guidance, support and be an effective role model for staff. Work in partnership with the other Acute Child Health Matron
About us
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.
If you have further queries please dont hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.
If you have further queries please dont hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- First level registration RGN(Child) RSCN. Currently registered with a professional body. PALS/EPLS trained
- Evidence of relevant recent study and continuing professional development. Willingness to continue with academic studying
Desirable
- Degree, or Masters or demonstration of equivalent substantial continuing professional development
Skills and expereince
Essential
- evidence of Financial management skills Clinical credibility Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- evidence of ability to work at a senior level representing the Trust to external stakeholders
Governance
Essential
- evidence of Able to assess priorities and make decisions, quick to grasp a point, able to "think on feet", influence, persuade, give leadership and direction Recent experience at working within a complex Governance led service including leading RCA/SI's
personal and professional
Essential
- demonstrate ability to function in a multi-professional environment Ability to cope under pressure and work to ambitious deadlines Self-motivated, energetic and flexible, with well-developed interpersonal skills
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- First level registration RGN(Child) RSCN. Currently registered with a professional body. PALS/EPLS trained
- Evidence of relevant recent study and continuing professional development. Willingness to continue with academic studying
Desirable
- Degree, or Masters or demonstration of equivalent substantial continuing professional development
Skills and expereince
Essential
- evidence of Financial management skills Clinical credibility Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- evidence of ability to work at a senior level representing the Trust to external stakeholders
Governance
Essential
- evidence of Able to assess priorities and make decisions, quick to grasp a point, able to "think on feet", influence, persuade, give leadership and direction Recent experience at working within a complex Governance led service including leading RCA/SI's
personal and professional
Essential
- demonstrate ability to function in a multi-professional environment Ability to cope under pressure and work to ambitious deadlines Self-motivated, energetic and flexible, with well-developed interpersonal skills
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).
