Staff Nurse (Children's Services)

Band 5 Registered Nurses Childrens

Are you ready to launch your career in an exciting and vibrant Childrens Hospital? Are you seeking a new opportunity and adventure? Then look no further than the Leeds Childrens Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Leeds Childrens Hospital is one of the UKs largest childrens hospitals with state-of-the-art treatments and facilities. We provide one of the most comprehensive ranges of specialist childrens services in the country and are recruiting across the following specialities:

Medicine

Surgery

Paediatric Critical Care

Neonatal Intensive Care

Cardiology

Oncology and Haematology

We also offer a rotational programme to work in 3 areas over 18 months. This opportunity is designed to provide you with experiences throughout the children's hospital in areas of interest and offers the opportunity to gain a high dependency qualification during the final 6 months of the programme.

Please do state your preference for specialty and/or rotational programme in the supporting information section on your application form.

If you are a newly qualified nurse, we will support you during your first 12 months with our Preceptorship programme. This offers structured personal and professional development as you transition to registered practice and includes a supernumerary period, Introduction to Professional Practice (IPP), and a bespoke education pathway for all our clinical areas.

Main duties of the job

The role is to provide and be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation & evaluation of individualised family centred, infant, child or young person focused programmes of care. You will deliver care without supervision & take responsibility as the prime care provider for a group of patients & at all times promote confidence in our commitment to provide excellent compassionate family centred, infant, child or young person focused patient care. The role will involve taking charge of the ward or department as necessary in the absence of the Sister or Charge Nurse. You will participate in the in-service training, preceptorship & mentorship of junior staff, post basic learners & students as well as maintaining your personal development. The jobholder will work within an environment caring for infants/neonates, children and or young people in providing child or young person focused care.

If you would like to meet and discuss a career with us we will be holding a stall at the nursing recruitment event on the Saturday 11th May 2024 10am-3pm Gledhow Wing, St Jamess University Hospital.

About us

Working at LTHT has many benefits including:

1. Flexible working patterns to fit you & your lifestyle

2. Supernumerary orientation periods

3. Structured induction programmes

4. Personalised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes, regardless of experience

We are very interested in hearing from you, including those of you who are students expecting to graduate in the next nine months. Come & join our team in Leeds & become part of The Leeds Way sharing our vision & values. Leeds Childrens hospital is rated as GOOD & the Trust is recognised for our staff engagement, great care & rated GOOD by the Care Quality Commission.

For all new starters to the Trust we have a structured Introduction to Professional Practice (IPP) Induction programme to prepare you for working at LTHT. We also have a 6 month preceptorship framework to support you in your new role, which incorporates further education sessions & support forums.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions

Job description

Job responsibilities

The role is to provide and be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised family centred, infant, child or young person focused programmes of care. You will deliver care without supervision and take responsibility as the prime care provider for a group of patients and at all times promote confidence in our commitment to provide excellent compassionate family centred, infant, child or young person focused patient care.

The role will involve taking charge of the ward or department as necessary in the absence of the Sister or Charge Nurse.

You will participate in the in-service training, preceptorship and mentorship of junior staff, post basic learners and students as well as maintaining your personal development.

Leeds Childrens Hospital is a large secondary and tertiary hospital providing a wide range of specialities to the population of Leeds as well as the wider North Region. The jobholder will work within an environment caring for infants/neonates, children and or young people in providing child or young person focused care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse (Child)
• Has current registration on the appropriate part of the NMC Register or awaiting NMC Registration
• Willing to undergo training as necessary

Experience

Essential

• Current issues in health and social care of children and young people

Desirable

• Awareness of speciality

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Caring, compassionate and motivated
• Reliable and Turstworthy
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to act professionally at all times
• Effective communication skills
• Effective numeracy skills e.g. accurate drug calculations
• Ability to organise self and others
• Team player
• Effective time management skills

Desirable

• Capable of lateral thinking

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Good written and verbal skills
• Able to provide and be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised programmes of care
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload
• Understanding of skills and knowledge required to develop team members
• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy.
• Ability to travel in between Trust premises and patient homes for posts that involve community visits.

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

Leeds General Infirmary

Great George Street

Leeds

LS1 3EX

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C9298-NUR-520