Paediatric Nurse-Children's Outpatient Dept

Transformation Unit; Lancaster; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust in Lancaster seeks a Paediatric Nurse for the Children's Outpatient Department. You will join a dedicated team providing care for babies, children and their families in outpatient settings, under the NHS AfC Band 5 framework.

You will work within an MDT, ensure compassionate, high-quality care, maintain accurate documentation, and participate in safeguarding and continuous professional development.

Qualifications

• Registered Children's Nurse with NMC registration.
• Experience with babies and children in a pre-registration setting.
• Experience in a multidisciplinary team and effective communication.
• Willingness to advance competencies and maintain IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Care for children and families in outpatient settings within MDT.
• Plan and evaluate care, maintain contemporaneous documentation.
• Adhere to safeguarding policies and clinical governance standards.

Skills

Basic life support

Communication skills

Basic IT skills

NMC regulations

Child protection awareness

Clinical governance awareness

Preceptorship awareness

Education

Registered Children's Nurse

Job description

Employer University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Lancaster Infirmary Town Lancaster Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/2026 23:59

Paediatric Nurse-Children's Outpatient Dept

NHS AfC: Band 5

''Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work''

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.

Job overview

Do you consider caring with compassion to be fundamental to your role? Looking for a new career path in one of the most picturesque parts of the country? Are you a student looking to take up your first post or qualified nurse looking for a new challenge? Then Morecambe Bay is just the place for you, offering the beautiful Lake District on your doorstep. Our Trust is recruiting enthusiastic, highly motivated nurses to join our dynamic, dedicated, forward thinking professional team which serves a wide geographical area with rural and urban communities.

The services we provide: Children’s Inpatient, Day Care, Assessment and Outpatients.

Our Children’s inpatient services provide compassionate care for Children and Young People from 0 to 16 years of age across two busy sites, Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Furness General Hospital. The units provide care for a mixture of specialities and for a wide range of conditions including High Dependency Care.

Main duties of the job

The units encompass inpatient, day care and assessment services for our communities. We also have dedicated Children’s Out-Patient departments on both sites. This ensures a rich variety of experiences and development for our staff.

You will be reliable, flexible, motivated, have excellent clinical skills, a commitment to ongoing learning and development, a commitment to delivering high quality care, and be willing and open to embracing positive change and transformation in order to meet the demands of the community we serve.

You will care for children, young people and families who are being admitted for assessment, elective or emergency surgery, investigations and treatment, including those requiring high dependency care and will plan and evaluate together with other members of the MDT, ensuring the best possible outcomes for the child, young person, or family, maintaining a high standard of contemporaneous documentation.

You will work within the Nursing and Midwifery Code and adhere to local guidelines and policies, and complete training requirements.

You will work alongside the safeguarding team and follow local safeguarding policy.

If this sounds like you, then we want to hear from you!

Working for our organisation

We operatefrom three main hospitals-Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, andUlverstonCommunity Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies,daycase and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

Our Community Service for adults are provided in people's homes ,community centres, clinics, GP Practices, community hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent , improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care , advice and support.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/

Person specification

Application Form

• Registered Children's Nurse
• Relevant pre-registration experience of working with babies and children
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of establishing effective communication
• Demsonstratable appropriate skills in nursing for babies and children
• Basic life support skills
• Willingness to advance competencies
• Basic IT Skills
• NMC Regulations
• Awareness of current child health and neonatal issues
• Child Protection Awareness
• Up to date knowledge of legislation pertaining to children and young people
• Awareness of clinical governance agenda
• Awareness importance of preceptorship and supervision

PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL.

Internal only posts are only open to employees of UHMBT and this does not include employees of OneLSC working in our hospitals.

The trust promotes flexible working opportunities where ever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be EffortlesslyInclusive .

The trust operates a No Smoking Policy. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview. We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received. The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert If the post is subject to Disclosure & Barring Service checking, there is a charge of £41.00 for Enhanced and £20.00 for Standard & Basic clearance and additional to this a £4.90 administration fee will be made to the successful candidate(s). This currently only applies to roles Band 6 and above and Medical & Dental posts.

Anyone newly appointed to the trust under the Agenda For Change contract, will be subject to the completion of a satisfactory 4 month probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the role and working environment.

We have introduced a new system called Pre-Onboarding, specifically to support you right the way through to your first few months in your new role with us atUHMB. This bespoke site has lots of useful information to help you settle into your new roleincluding: what to expect from the recruitment clearances process, where to get a uniform, when you'll get paid etc. As well as information on a number of our services i.e. Infection Prevention, Anti-fraud, Inclusion and Diversity, Care Certificates and much more. To access click on this link https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/uhmbt-pre-onboarding .

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.