Health Care Assistant

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A University Teaching Hospital is seeking a motivated Children's Nurse for a full-time role in Milton Keynes. The successful candidate will provide essential care and support to infants, children, and their families within an acute setting, while working closely with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates must hold an NHS Care Certificate and should be dedicated to maintaining a high standard of patient care. The role includes flexible working opportunities and a range of benefits.

Benefits

Free on-site parking

Discounted gym membership

Generous annual leave

Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Must have NHS Care Certificate to be Band 3.
• Experience in acute children's care is desirable.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide family-centred care for babies and children.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team.
• Maintain a clean and safe ward environment.
• Assist parents and children as directed.

Skills

Family-centred care

Effective communication

Basic Life Support

Education

NHS Care Certificate

Job description

Welcome to the Children's Nursing Team at MKUH. We are looking for a motivated, caring and dedicated individual to join our established Children's Nursing teams on Ward 4 (Paediatric Assessment Unit) and Ward 5 (Acute Children's Ward).

Hours: 37.5 hours per week over a variety of shifts. (All MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working).

Banding and Certification

Please be advised you must have an NHS Care Certificate to be Band 3. You will be Band 2 until you pass this and your probation.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide family‑centred care for babies, children and young people requiring admission to an acute hospital setting.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, including the Neonatal Unit and Children’s Emergency Department, and support them when needed.
• Establish and maintain an open and sensitive communicative manner with children, relatives and staff.
• Display friendly, helpful and respectful attention to everyone.
• Assist visitors to the department, report complaints or untoward incidents to the nurse in charge of the shift, answer the telephone and relay messages.
• Accompany children and parents to other departments (e.g., X‑ray) when requested.
• Assist the staff in keeping the ward environment clean and tidy, including cleaning and re‑stocking cupboards, sluice, utility rooms, treatment rooms, and maintaining a safe environment.
• Report any faulty equipment to EBME and inform the nurse in charge promptly.
• Record temperature of fridges in kitchen, drug room, and cubicles; act if temperatures are outside limits.
• Undertake tasks within the scope of practice and skill set, deal with urgent dispatches of specimens, contribute to effective use of resources and use the relevant hospital IT systems.
• Demonstrate a professional approach to patients, relatives and colleagues, comply with Trust policies, and develop appropriate nursing skills.
• Escort/chaperone parents and children as directed, maintain child safety using manual handling equipment once trained, help children mobilise within constraints of their illness, and match mobility aids.
• Carry out toileting needs, maintain privacy, support feeding and nutritional needs, assist with meals and bottle feeding, breastfeeding support for mothers.
• Provide personal cares, ensure patients are comfortable, help patients move around, serve meals.

Training & Development

• Support for educational needs to ensure competence and continued development through access to both courses relevant to the role and day‑to‑day supervised “learning on the job”.
• Further training available includes: Basic Life Support and various skills training sessions such as venepuncture.

Benefits

• Free on‑site parking including EV charging.
• Complimentary refreshments.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Discounted gym membership.
• Salary sacrifice car scheme.
• Generous annual leave, with the option to bank holiday entitlement.
• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme.
• On‑site nursery (charges apply).
• A wide‑ranging staff health and wellbeing programme including EAP.
• VIVUP products to support mental, physical and financial wellbeing.

Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) is a University Teaching Hospital committed to advancing patient care through research and education, and has recently opened a state‑of‑the‑art Radiotherapy Centre. We offer a full range of general medical and surgical services, including Emergency, Maternity and Paediatrics.