Job summary
Staff Nurse - Paediatric Emergency (Band 5)
Full time and part time roles available.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint Band 5 staff nurses to join our friendly Paediatric Accident & Emergency department at Ormskirk Hospital.
The Paediatric Accident &Emergency department, has been rated good by CQC. The Department has undergone recent redesign and refurbishment and prides itself on providing excellent family centred care to children and their families in the local area.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Children's nurse, who is an excellent role model, self-motivated and committed to the delivery of high standards of quality care. Experience is preferred but not essential.
If you are a Children's nurse, committed to providing high quality care and would like to develop your clinical skills, this position could be for you.
The post is shift work, rotational to night duty and the ability to work as part of a team is essential.
We work closely with our Paediatric Ward, Assessment Unit and Neonatal Unit and rotational posts within the department are available for staff to gain experience in all areas.
Interview date: 19th June 2025
Main duties of the job
1. Assess, plan develop and implement programmes of care to patients, providing advice in a variety of settings.
2. Carry out nursing procedures in line with current NMC standards of proficiency.
3. Ensure the health, wellbeing and independence of patients and service users across healthcare settings, maintaining associated records, ensuring all patients always receive safe and effective care.
4. Supervision of junior staff and all learners.
5. Always understand and demonstrate the Trust values.
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached.
1. Assess, plan develop and implement programmes of care to patients, providing advice in a variety of settings.
2. Carry out nursing procedures in line with current NMC standards of proficiency.
3. Ensure the health, wellbeing and independence of patients and service users across healthcare settings, maintaining associated records, ensuring all patients always receive safe and effective care.
4. Supervision of junior staff and all learners.
5. Always understand and demonstrate the Trust values.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached.
1. Assess, plan develop and implement programmes of care to patients, providing advice in a variety of settings.
2. Carry out nursing procedures in line with current NMC standards of proficiency.
3. Ensure the health, wellbeing and independence of patients and service users across healthcare settings, maintaining associated records, ensuring all patients always receive safe and effective care.
4. Supervision of junior staff and all learners.
5. Always understand and demonstrate the Trust values.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Children's Nurse (RNC) with current NMC Registration
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- 1st Level Registered Nurse (degree/diploma)
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of NMC professional standards for practice contained within the code
- Experience of working in a clinical environment
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- An understanding of national, regional, and local NHS issues
- Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels
- Effectively prioritises and co-ordinates own workload
- Awareness of the need for confidentiality at all times
- Ability to de-escalate complex situations
- Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Computer literacy e.g. experience of electronic patient record
Other
Essential
- Frequent concentration required for drug calculation and Administration
- Ability to work within highly distressing or emotional circumstances e.g. end of life care.
- Frequent moderate effort for several short periods of time such as manual handling of patients and equipment.
- Dealing with frequent interruptions and competing demands
- Able to carry out direct clinical care as required on ward or department
- Ability to communicate in a challenging environment
- Ability to communicate distressing information
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Children's Nurse (RNC) with current NMC Registration
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- 1st Level Registered Nurse (degree/diploma)
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of NMC professional standards for practice contained within the code
- Experience of working in a clinical environment
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- An understanding of national, regional, and local NHS issues
- Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels
- Effectively prioritises and co-ordinates own workload
- Awareness of the need for confidentiality at all times
- Ability to de-escalate complex situations
- Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Computer literacy e.g. experience of electronic patient record
Other
Essential
- Frequent concentration required for drug calculation and Administration
- Ability to work within highly distressing or emotional circumstances e.g. end of life care.
- Frequent moderate effort for several short periods of time such as manual handling of patients and equipment.
- Dealing with frequent interruptions and competing demands
- Able to carry out direct clinical care as required on ward or department
- Ability to communicate in a challenging environment
- Ability to communicate distressing 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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
