Associate Practitioner - Paediatrics | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust; Basildon; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A local hospital trust in Basildon is seeking an experienced Band 4 Associate Practitioner to join their Paediatrics team. You will provide high-quality care for children and young people with medical needs. Key responsibilities include performing advanced care techniques and ensuring a safe environment. This is a 12-month fixed term contract, ending August 2026, with no visa sponsorship available.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working with children.
• Holding an NNEB or NVQ level 3 equivalent qualification is essential.
• Ability to learn and implement care practices.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care for children.
• Create a caring and safe environment for patients and families.
• Perform invasive and non-invasive procedures at an advanced level.
• Monitor and record patient conditions.

Skills

Experience with children

Trustworthy communication

Clinical assessment

Hands-on care techniques

Education

NNEB or NVQ level 3 qualification

Job description

Overview

Have you got experience with children and hold an NNEB or NVQ level 3 equivalent qualification? Are you looking for a new challenge? Come and join our team at Basildon Hospital Paediatrics as a Band 4 Associate Practitioner.

The Band 4 Associate Practitioner is an exciting role. You will be taught vital skills such as care of a tracheostomy tube, venipuncture, cannulation, NG feeding and tube placement, and much more. You will work alongside the multi-disciplinary team in the delivery of high standards of care to children and young people who present with medical and complex needs.

Please be aware this role may close early due to number of applications.

No VISA sponsorship available for this role. This post is a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract ending Aug 2026.

Responsibilities

• Support and training will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for specified children and young people in hospital, according to their individual needs and as part of a care plan, ensuring that the care is fully documented.
• Work with the team flexibly across the children's unit to create a caring and safe environment for children, young people and their families.
• Learn how to assess and recognise clinical deterioration in patients and report to the nurse/doctor in charge of their care by means of monitoring and recording the patient’s condition, following teaching and assessment of competence.
• Provide and deliver care with skills applicable to our patient case load.
• Work alongside the multi-disciplinary team in the delivery of high standards of specific care, maintaining cleanliness/asepsis, meeting the nutritional needs of patients, and undertaking a range of skills to nurse care activities identified as appropriate by the senior nursing staff and within a defined competency framework.
• Independently perform invasive and non-invasive minor procedures at an advanced level.
• You will provide a holistic, child and family centred care.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Experience with children and holding an NNEB or NVQ level 3 equivalent qualification.
• No VISA sponsorship available for this role.
• 12 Month Fixed Term Contract ending Aug 2026.

Additional Information

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. We aim to recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Are you looking for an exciting Associate Practitioner role within Paediatrics using your unique qualities? Then we want to hear from you. For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description. We look forward to your application.

This advert closes on Thursday 18 Sep 2025.