Paediatric Staff Nurse Daycare

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust; Kemp Town Estate; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Kemp Town is looking for an enthusiastic pediatric nurse to join their dynamic team. The role involves caring for children undergoing procedures, maintaining effective communication with families, and ensuring accurate nursing records. Applicants must hold UK NMC registration. This position supports professional development and has flexible working options.

Qualifications

• Currently hold a UK NMC registration.
• Undertake DBS checks if eligible.

Responsibilities

• Maintain effective communication with carers of children.
• Negotiate sensitively with children and carers.
• Lead shift handovers ensuring relevant details are communicated.

Job description

Overview

The Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital (RACH) has a long history of progressive and innovative children’s care, embracing medicine, nursing and related professions, children’s nurse training and research. It is one of the leading children’s centres on the South Coast with a 24-hour dedicated children’s emergency department. RACH works closely with the neonatal service providing support and services for neonates such as surgery. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dedicated team player to join our dynamic paediatric departments. Our Day Case Ward is a busy unit which cares for children having surgery or investigations and treatment of medical conditions from a wide range of specialties.

Responsibilities

• Maintain effective communication with carers about routine and daily activities of the children in designated area.
• Negotiate sensitively with children and their carers particularly if there are any barriers to understanding.
• Behave in a consistent manner with children and their carers, multi-disciplinary team and the public.
• Communicate with children in a manner appropriate to their age and stage of development and their carers.
• Articulate current status of all children in their care to nurse in charge on each shift, if in charge then to the children’s services bleep holder as required and to the multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrate use of basic IT skills to complete details of admission/discharge of patients.
• Write precise, accurate and timely nursing records.
• Listen actively and respond appropriately to information given.
• Take part in and lead shift handovers ensuring relevant detail is communicated to the team.
• Recognise when own and others’ behaviour is not acceptable and take action to address this effectively.

Qualifications and requirements

• We welcome applications from those who currently hold a UK NMC registration.
• If you hold an overseas nursing qualification and require sponsorship we are not currently direct hiring Internationally Qualified Nurses.
• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are undertaken on all new employees where the role is eligible for a criminal record check.
• We make offers in line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1975.
• Skilled Worker visa sponsorship is welcome for roles that meet the visa eligibility criteria (visit gov.uk for details).
• For secondments, agreement and authorisation from your current Trust/Manager is required before applying; if approval cannot be gained you should refrain from applying unless taking the role as a fixed-term position.

About UHSussex

At UHSussex we are proud to be at the heart of the NHS. We are one of the UK’s largest acute Trusts, committed to putting patients first and supporting our staff with a comprehensive wellbeing programme and flexible working options where possible. We are diverse, inclusive and offer staff networks and buddy systems to help new members settle in. We are a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust, with a focus on learning, teaching and training to support career development.