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TN United Kingdom; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Paediatric Nurse to join their specialized plastic surgery and burns team. This role involves managing trauma clinics, coordinating patient care, and collaborating with a multi-professional team to ensure the best outcomes for young patients. The organization values diversity and inclusion, offering a supportive environment for personal and professional growth. With a commitment to compassionate care, this position is ideal for someone passionate about making a difference in the lives of children facing surgical challenges.

Benefits

Learning and Development Opportunities

Flexible Working Opportunities

Generous Annual Leave

NHS Discount Schemes

Health and Wellbeing Services

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years' experience in a paediatric setting.
• Registered nurse with competencies in burns and plastic surgery.

Responsibilities

• Manage paediatric burns and plastics trauma clinics.
• Coordinate patients needing surgery through the trauma list.

Skills

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Computer Skills

Clinical Experience

Nursing Competencies

Education

Nursing Degree

Registered Paediatric Nurse

Registered Adult Nurse with Paediatric Competencies

Tools

TRIPs System

Careflow

Job description

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This is a new and exciting role to help with the coordination and management of paediatric patients who are being treated under the plastic surgery and burns teams at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Hospitals.

The plastic surgery and burns team is a highly specialised surgical division within Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. We are the tertiary referral unit and the burns unit for a large population area covering Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Berkshire.

It is essential for this post holder to have a minimum of 2 years' experience in a paediatric setting and exposure to patients with plastic surgery and burns-related injuries.

The post holder must have excellent communication skills to liaise and work alongside patients and a varied multi-professional team.

Main duties of the job

1. Manage paediatric burns and plastics trauma clinics 7 days a week as part of the MDT.
2. Attend Burns MDT meetings on Tuesdays from 12-13.
3. Assess paediatric patients referred via the TRIPS system, prioritise hospital cases, and support referrers with burns care.
4. Ensure all safeguarding referrals are submitted by the plastics and burns medical team or referring hospital.
5. Coordinate paediatric burns and plastics trauma patients needing surgery through the Stoke Mandeville Trauma list.
6. Contribute to and coordinate weekend clinics for Paediatric Burns and Plastics Trauma.

Working for our organisation

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• Learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• Flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside NHS benefits such as generous annual leave, pension, and access to NHS discount schemes.
• Health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We promote inclusion and diversity, encouraging applicants from varied backgrounds.
• We aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues are treated with dignity and respect.
• We believe greater diversity improves outcomes for the communities we serve.
• We support the Armed Forces Community, valuing service leavers, veterans, and their families.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities, and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to deliver personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect, and enable.

Person specification

Education

• Nursing Degree certificate / RGN / NMC pin.
• Registered Paediatric Nurse to degree level or equivalent.
• Registered adult (burns) nurse with paediatric competencies.
• Further education in burns/plastic surgery evidence.

Core Skills

• Ability to use a computer.
• Evidence of clear written English.
• Recent experience within the Plastic Surgery and burns specialty field.
• Experience within theatre.
• Wide clinical experience as a nurse.
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative.
• Experience with systems such as TRIPs and Careflow.

Values

• Open, honest, and professional communication, promoting teamwork and strong working relationships.
• Patients always come first. Drive service improvements. Be self-aware and eager to grow.
• Treat everyone with compassion and kindness. Make sure everyone feels valued.
• Consult others, listen to their views, and enable initiative.

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, colleagues, and patients from viruses when working in healthcare settings. Staff are encouraged to be vaccinated when recommended.

If you are successful at interview, you will need to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the date specified at midnight. We may close the application early if we receive many applications or circumstances change.

Application information: If offered a job, your information will be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: Monitoring and safeguarding sections are not visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be visible to the interview panel, depending on the role.

Travel expenses: Travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking is prohibited in all areas.

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