Paediatric Nurse-Children's Outpatient Dept

Nhs-1; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Paediatric Nurse (Band 5) for the Children’s Outpatient Department at Royal Lancaster Infirmary. The role requires delivering compassionate care to children and families, working within a multi-disciplinary team across inpatient, day care, and outpatient settings.

You will provide clinical care from birth to 16 years, participate in safeguarding, and uphold high standards of documentation, learning, and professional

Qualifications

• Registered Children's Nurse (UK professional registration)
• Relevant pre-registration experience with babies and children
• Experience in multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in establishing effective communication
• Demonstrable nursing skills for babies and children
• Basic life support skills
• Willingness to advance competencies
• Basic IT skills
• NMC Regulations
• Awareness of 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 of preceptorship and supervision

Responsibilities

• Care for children, young people and families admitted for assessment, elective or emergency care.
• Plan and evaluate with the MDT to ensure best outcomes and maintain high-quality documentation.
• Work within the Nursing and Midwifery Code and adhere to local safeguarding policies.

Skills

Basic life support

Basic IT skills

NMC Regulations

Child Protection Awareness

Communication skills

Clinical governance awareness

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.

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.

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/

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

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, (formally CRB) a charge of £49.50 for Enhanced and £21.50 for Standard 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.