Registered Children's Nurse

Job summary

We are recruiting for an experienced Registered Children's Nurse to join our team in our Children's Emergency Department and Children's Assessment Unit who shares our vision to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Our Children's Emergency Department is purpose-built to provide exceptional care, featuring 2 paediatric resuscitation bays, 6 major treatment spaces, and a 10-bed Children's Assessment Unit.

We are committed to supporting your professional growth and development, tailoring opportunities to help you advance your career in the direction you choose. Whether you want to progress or stay in your current role, we'll work with you to help you become the best healthcare professional you can be.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

If you are a compassionate, confident and motivated experienced Children's Nurse looking for an opportunity to make a real difference to children, young people and their families, join our Children's Emergency Department, where no two days are the same and your skills and compassion can make an immediate impact.

As a Band 5 Children's Nurse, you will provide high-quality, holistic and family-centred care, using your clinical knowledge and professional judgement to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate individualised care in partnership with children, families and the wider multidisciplinary team.

You will be a strong advocate for every child, recognising their physical, emotional, psychological, social, developmental and spiritual needs. You will build trusting relationships, communicate in an age-appropriate way and create a safe, welcoming and positive healthcare experience.

You will promote play, distraction and education, ensuring children with additional or special needs receive individualised support. You will respect the cultures, customs, values and beliefs of every child and family.

Safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do. You will play a vital role in protecting children and young people, recognising and escalating concerns appropriately.

Join a team that values kindness, clinical excellence, teamwork, professionalism and continuous learning.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Skills

Essential

• Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to work within a team
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to priorities and organise workload
• Flexibility around working hours
• Computer literacy

Desirable

• Venepuncture and Cannulation
• Triage competent
• X-ray training
• Minor injury skills (wound care, plastering)
• Competent in using HHHFT (optiflow, CPAP, Hamilton)

Qualifications / Training

Essential

• Registered Nurse on part 1, part 2 or part 12 of the NMC register
• Evidence of further education, training and on-going learning
• Commitment to lifelong learning
• Evidence of practice supervisor
• Evidence of practice assessor
• PILS
• Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification

Desirable

• Youth mental health first aid training or equivalent MH training

Knowledge

Essential

• Management of common paediaitric conditions
• Understanding paediatric assessment and clinical skills
• Up to date knowledge of NMC Code of Professional practice
• Understanding children's safeguarding practice

Other Requirements

Essential

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Awareness of strategies for maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors
• Evidence of commitment to the Trust's values and the ability to demonstrate them at all times