Paediatric A&E Senior Sister/Charge nurse

Whittington NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Whittington NHS Trust is seeking a passionate and experienced paediatric emergency nurse for their Emergency Department. The successful candidate will deliver high-quality care to children, oversee junior staff, and participate in professional development courses. This permanent position emphasizes leadership, teamwork, and commitment to safeguarding standards while providing excellent healthcare outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years experience in a clinical environment, with at least 2 years in Children's ED.
• Great communication skills and leadership abilities.
• Willingness to take on mentoring responsibilities for junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Delivering high quality emergency care in a paediatric setting.
• Supporting junior staff and participating in educational courses.
• Maintaining adherence to national care quality indicators.

Skills

Excellent paediatric clinical skills

Management and leadership skills

Verbal and written communication skills

Positive attitude

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Registered nurse (Child)

Emergency Nursing Module

APLS

Mentorship

Paediatric Immediate Life Support

Job description

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Job overview

Contract - Permanent

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)

TILS (Trauma immediate life support)

Mentorship

Paediatric HDU / Children's Emergency nursing

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

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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!!

Working for our organisation

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 Trust believes 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.

Detailed job description and main 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

Essential criteria

• Registered nurse (Child)
• Emergency Nursing Module
• Mentorship
• Paediatric Immediate Life Support
• APLS

Desirable criteria

• Paediatric Mental Health training

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• 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

Desirable criteria

• Patient Group Directive competent

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• 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

Essential criteria

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

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form -

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes -

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• PED B7 JDPS (PDF, 585.2KB)
• Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)
• Whittington Employment Promise (PDF, 22.4KB)