Children's ED Staff Nurse | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS teaching trust in Oxford is seeking a Children's Staff Nurse for its Emergency Department. The successful candidate will assess and implement nursing care, supervise junior staff, and work collaboratively with healthcare professionals. Ideal candidates will have experience in emergency or ward settings and a passion for delivering high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience in an emergency setting or ward-based skills.
• Strong commitment to patient-centred care.
• NMC registered nurse qualification.

Responsibilities

• Independently assess and implement nursing care for patients.
• Supervise, mentor, and educate junior nursing staff.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for optimal patient care.

Skills

Motivated individual

Emergency nursing interest

Initiative

Job description

Children's Staff Nurse – Emergency Department

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual with plenty of initiative to join our team. If you have an interest in emergency nursing and share our enthusiasm for delivering high standards of care, we have a position for you.

We are looking for Children’s Nurses that have previously worked in an emergency setting or have ward-based skills looking to gain experience in this dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Independently assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care for a defined caseload of patients.
• Assume responsibility for individual clinical areas within the unit.
• Maintain and continually develop specialist knowledge of nursing practice relevant to the individual clinical area.
• Contribute to the development of others through supervision, mentoring and teaching.
• Contribute toward the continuing development of professional nursing practice in the Emergency Department.
• Follow trust guidance in regards to safeguarding.
• Deliver a patient-centred style of practice that reflects and promotes the beliefs and values of professional nursing practice within the Emergency Department.
• Assume coordinating responsibility for individual clinical areas, proactively resolving problems identified within the individual clinical area.
• Set and maintain standards of practice, conduct, or decision making in conjunction with Sister / Charge Nurse / Matron / Senior Nursing Team.
• Accurately document and report to other members of the nursing and multidisciplinary team information regarding the care given to patients.
• Supervise, mentor, support and educate pre-registration nurses, undergraduate nurses and other members of the multidisciplinary team in the clinical practice setting.
• Liaise with other health care professionals with ongoing responsibility for patient care.
• Adhere to the code: Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives (NMC 2008).
• Demonstrate a commitment to research-based practice and clinical excellence, playing an active part in the introduction of research-based change to improve patient-centred care.
• Demonstrate awareness and understanding of accountability, responsibility and duty of care, supporting and educating junior staff of the implications for practice.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and focus on compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.

This advert closes on Wednesday 15 Oct 2025.