Paediatric A&E Senior Sister/Charge Nurse

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greater London seeks an experienced paediatric emergency nurse to join their dynamic team. This role requires exceptional clinical and leadership skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality care in a busy 24/7 environment. Successful applicants will have a proven track record in emergency care and possess qualifications such as APLS and Paediatric Immediate Life Support. Join us in achieving outstanding patient outcomes in our top-performing emergency department.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years experience in a clinical environment with 2 years in Children's ED.
• Understanding of current issues in paediatric nursing.
• Experience of shift management and team leadership.
• Knowledge of emergency care targets and child protection issues.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality care in a paediatric emergency setting.
• Support and develop junior staff with leadership skills.
• Achieve national emergency department care quality indicators.

Skills

Excellent paediatric clinical skills

Management and leadership skills

Verbal and written communication skills

Positive attitude

Ability to work under pressure

Motivate a team

Clinical supervision

Plastering

Phlebotomy and cannulation

Education

Emergency Nursing Module

Paediatric Immediate Life Support

APLS

Paediatric Mental Health training

Job description

Do you enjoy the challenges an Emergency Department demands?

Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally?

We are looking for an experienced dynamic and motivated paediatric emergency nurse to join our team. We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering high quality care, is a good team player, a flexible approach and who will bring a positive attitude to the trust. You will have excellent communication, organisational and leadership skills and the ability to motivate and inspire staff to achieve desired outcomes. We take great pride in being part of a top performing Trust and top performing Emergency Department. We are committed to ensuring quality patient care whilst achieving the national emergency department care quality indicators and targets.

Main duties of the job

Our Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Care Centre treated more than 110,000 patients in the last year. 25% were treated in our dedicated Paediatric Emergency Department which operates 24/7. We provide high quality emergency care and give structured support and development to all our nurses. Our latest CQC report was Good. Our staff wellbeing initiatives and our recognition of the importance of maintaining positive staffing culture in the ED environment, was acknowledged as outstanding by the CQC.

You will be supported in undertaking a variety of educational and development courses:

APLS (advance paediatric life support)

PILS (Paediatric immediate life support)

Paediatric HDU / Children's Emergency nursing

Qualification in Specialism for Paediatric Emergency Nursing, which is accredited by the RCN.

EZ-IO - Intraosseous Vascular Access System

You will need to be an experienced children's nurse committed to delivering positive outcomes for children and families. The Band 7 post requires 4 years experience in a relevant clinical environment, with a minimum of 2 years Children's ED experience, and evidence of further professional development. If you possess great communication skills, enjoy working under pressure to provide safe, effective care, and demonstrate leadership and mentoring skills aimed at developing and supporting junior members of staff, we want to hear from you!!

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced dynamic and motivated paediatric emergency nurse to join our team. We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering high quality care, is a good team player, a flexible approach and who will bring a positive attitude to the trust. You will have excellent communication, organisational and leadership skills and the ability to motivate and inspire staff to achieve desired outcomes. We take great pride in being part of a top performing Trust and top performing Emergency Department. We are committed to ensuring quality patient care whilst achieving the national emergency department care quality indicators and targets.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

• Emergency Nursing Module
• Paediatric Immediate Life Support
• APLS
• Paediatric Mental Health training

Skills & Abilities

• Excellent paediatric clinical skills
• Management and leadership skills
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Positive attitude, ability to work under pressure
• Able to work across professional team and motivate a team
• Clinical supervision
• Plastering
• Phlebotomy and cannulation

Knowledge and Experience

• Sufficient experience with minimum 3 years in ED
• Understanding of current issues in paediatric nursing
• Knowledge of emergency care targets
• Experience of shift management and team leadership
• Knowledge of child protection issues

Personal Qualities

• Able to work well within a team
• Able to work flexible hours
• Enthusiastic, approachable and friendly
• Smart presentation, professional manner

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£56,276 to £63,176 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS