Job summary
Alder Hey Childrens Hospital cares for over 330,000 children, young people, and their families every year. As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, we treat everything from common illness to highly complex and specialist condition.
In 2015 we opened a state-of-the-art hospital alongside a brand-new research, innovation, and education centre. Our hospital features 270 beds, including 48 critical care beds for patients in PICU, HDU and Burns.
Exciting opportunities have arisen for enthusiastic and experienced surgical nurses to join our amazing team on Ward 4A, we are a 32 Bed Unit that provides care to children and young people under Orthopaedic, Neurosurgical and Major Trauma specialties.
The ward has 6 Regional paediatric Neurosurgical High Dependency beds and 4 commissioned beds for patients having complex orthopaedic and spinal surgery. We pride ourselves in our close collaboration with therapist and medics providing the best multidisciplinary care approach to the patient's needs.
We are committed to ensuring our workforce is highly skilled to deliver this specialist care and offer new starters a full induction and education programme along with a period of supernumerary practice.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity in more detail or would like to visit the ward area to meet the team, please contact the ward manager .We really look forward to hearing form you.
Zoe Mawdsley
zoe.mawdlsey@alderhey.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate family centred care without direct supervision that is evidence based/ best practice
- To maintain high standards of nursing care and to promote an environment suitable for the care of children
- To maintain a role as a primary nurse at all times through admission to discharge addressing care requirements sensitive to the individual needs of the patient and family
- To manage and organise ward effectively as shift leader
- Maintaining patient records and confidentiality
- To contribute to and participate in clinical audit and research programmes
- Ensure the privacy and dignity of patients and their families is maintained and religious and cultural beliefs are respected at all times.
About us
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients' homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the nearby borough of Sefton.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We're also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose:
The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
Clinical Effectiveness
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate family centred care without direct supervision that is evidence based/ best practice
- To maintain high standards of nursing care and to promote an environment suitable for the care of children
- To maintain a role as a primary nurse at all times through admission to discharge addressing care requirements sensitive to the individual needs of the patient and family
- To manage and organise ward effectively as shift leader
- Maintaining patient records and confidentiality.
- To contribute to and participate in clinical audit and research programmes
- Ensure the privacy and dignity of patients and their families is maintained and religious and cultural beliefs are respected at all times.
Resource Effectiveness
- To contribute to the effective utilisation of resources and maintenance of adequate stock levels.
Risk Management
- Maintaining patient records are legible and accurate at all time
- To participate in incident reporting as required
- Promote and maintain a safe and comfortable therapeutic environment for patients and their families
- To ensure that all Trust policies and procedures are adhered to
- Maintain readiness of all equipment ensuring that it is decontaminated after use and report if equipment is broken or faulty
- Contribute to evidence based nursing practice policies and procedures.
Communication
- To provide up to date information for families in conjunction with the multi disciplinary professional team
- To undertake liaison with other staff and outside agencies to ensure continuity of care
- Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills, both detailed and legible
- Ensure patient and family confidentiality at all times in line with NMC guidelines
- To participate in an effective communication system, which ensures that a team approach to family centred care is encouraged and adopted.
Continuous Professional Development
- To support and teach new members of staff and work alongside pre-registration students.
- To participate in professional development programmes, attend mandatory training days and keeping updated with new research findings, PDPs and role expansion.
- Acknowledges any limitations of competence and comply with all professional and trust rules, codes, policies and procedures
Continuous Quality Improvement
- To assist in setting and monitoring standards of patient care.
- To participate in transformation projects relevant wards and patient experience.
User Views and Experience
- Participate in audits, questionnaire development and focus groups that help to engage parents and carers and improve the quality of care provided
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose:
The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
Clinical Effectiveness
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate family centred care without direct supervision that is evidence based/ best practice
- To maintain high standards of nursing care and to promote an environment suitable for the care of children
- To maintain a role as a primary nurse at all times through admission to discharge addressing care requirements sensitive to the individual needs of the patient and family
- To manage and organise ward effectively as shift leader
- Maintaining patient records and confidentiality.
- To contribute to and participate in clinical audit and research programmes
- Ensure the privacy and dignity of patients and their families is maintained and religious and cultural beliefs are respected at all times.
Resource Effectiveness
- To contribute to the effective utilisation of resources and maintenance of adequate stock levels.
Risk Management
- Maintaining patient records are legible and accurate at all time
- To participate in incident reporting as required
- Promote and maintain a safe and comfortable therapeutic environment for patients and their families
- To ensure that all Trust policies and procedures are adhered to
- Maintain readiness of all equipment ensuring that it is decontaminated after use and report if equipment is broken or faulty
- Contribute to evidence based nursing practice policies and procedures.
Communication
- To provide up to date information for families in conjunction with the multi disciplinary professional team
- To undertake liaison with other staff and outside agencies to ensure continuity of care
- Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills, both detailed and legible
- Ensure patient and family confidentiality at all times in line with NMC guidelines
- To participate in an effective communication system, which ensures that a team approach to family centred care is encouraged and adopted.
Continuous Professional Development
- To support and teach new members of staff and work alongside pre-registration students.
- To participate in professional development programmes, attend mandatory training days and keeping updated with new research findings, PDPs and role expansion.
- Acknowledges any limitations of competence and comply with all professional and trust rules, codes, policies and procedures
Continuous Quality Improvement
- To assist in setting and monitoring standards of patient care.
- To participate in transformation projects relevant wards and patient experience.
User Views and Experience
- Participate in audits, questionnaire development and focus groups that help to engage parents and carers and improve the quality of care provided
Person Specification
Application
Essential
- 1 year post graduation experience
- Experience or special interest in Neurosurgery, orthopedics or Trauma
Desirable
- Communication Skills
- Ability to plan, implement and assess family centred care
Person Specification
Application
Essential
- 1 year post graduation experience
- Experience or special interest in Neurosurgery, orthopedics or Trauma
Desirable
- Communication Skills
- Ability to plan, implement and assess family centred care
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).
