Nursery Nurse

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust seeks an experienced Nursery Nurse to join the paediatric team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, providing play preparation, distraction and support to children, young people and their families.

The role is shared with the current nursery nurse, working two days per week (Monday and Friday) across Emergency care and Children and Young People's departments to improve the hospital experience for patients and families.

Qualifications

• To assist the registered practitioner in providing high quality compassionate care and assistance to patients/relatives and their carers appropriate to their needs.
• To use theoretical knowledge and evidence based practice to assess, plan,implement and evaluate therapeutic play and recreational interventions whilst in thehealthcare setting.
• To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring every child/youngperson has the opportunity, encouragement and facilities for play: in a safe secureenvironment
• Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
• Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

Responsibilities

• Assist the registered practitioner in delivering high quality compassionate care to patients, relatives, and carers.
• Provide therapeutic play and recreational interventions based on theory and evidence-based practice.
• Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure play opportunities are available in a safe environment.

Skills

Compassionate care

Theoretical knowledge

Teamwork

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Nursery Nurse to join the paediatric team, you will work within Children's services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital providing play preparation, distraction and support to children, young people and their families

You will job share with our current nursery nurse and work alongside our doctors, nurses and other health care professionals two days per week Monday and Friday. You will be based across both our Emergency care department and Children and Young peoples department supporting our patients to improve their overall hospital experience.

Main duties of the job

To assist the registered practitioner in providing high quality compassionate careand assistance to patients/relatives and their carers appropriate to their needs

To use theoretical knowledge and evidence based practice to assess, plan,implement and evaluate therapeutic play and recreational interventions whilst in thehealthcare setting

To use theoretical knowledge and evidence based practice to assess, plan,implement and evaluate therapeutic play and recreational interventions whilst in thehealthcare setting

To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring every child/youngperson has the opportunity, encouragement and facilities for play: in a safe secureenvironment

To comply with the Trusts ICORE vision and behavioural values

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.