Paediatric Staff Nurse - Paediatric Assessment Unit

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Paediatric Staff Nurse to join the Paediatric Assessment Unit. The role offers full-time hours and the chance to contribute to expanding paediatric services for children aged 0-16 and their families.

You will join a friendly multidisciplinary team, work with an electronic patient record (EPR) project, and support a department that has been rated GOOD by the CQC.

Qualifications

• Registered Paediatric nurse with ongoing professional development
• Teaching and Assessing qualification desirable
• Diploma/Degree in Nursing required or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Participate in high standard of patient-centred nursing care
• Assist in family-centred, clinically effective care from admission to discharge
• Act as a role model for other staff
• Develop action plans, protocols and pathways for quality improvement
• Use appraisal reviews to progress knowledge and skills

Skills

Ability to plan and prioritise care

Family centered care

Team work & initiative

Administration of IV drugs

Verbal & written communication

Central venous access management

Education

Diploma/Degree in Nursing

Registered Paediatric nurse

Job description

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

Paediatric Staff Nurse - Paediatric Assessment Unit

The closing date is 12 November 2026

We are looking to recruit a registered nurse to join our team providing care on our paediatric assessment unit. This is an exciting opportunity to join our paediatric team with lots of new and innovative services growing and developing. We are looking to increase our nursing establishment within PAU as the service grows and you would be a key part in this development.

You would be joining a friendly and dynamic multi-disciplinary team, whose paediatric services were rated as GOOD by the CQC .

We are looking for registered nurses of all levels of experience, who have passion and drive to provide excellent patient care for all children aged 0-16 years and their families.

At present we have a position within the Paediatric Assessment Unit offering full time hours to the successful candidate.

Our Paediatric Assessment Unit is currently co-located with our inpatient paediatric ward and has strong links with this service and the Paediatric Emergency Department.

Please note, this post is also open to newly qualified nurses or adult nurses with paediatric experience.

Main duties of the job

• Participate in the provision of a high standard of patient centred evidence-based nursing care
• Assist in the delivery of a family-centred, clinically effective and dynamic service from the babies/child's/young person's admission assessment to discharge
• Act as a role model for other staff.
• Contribute to the development of action plans, protocols and pathways to ensure continuous quality improvement of the paediatric/neonatal service.
• Using appraisal reviews to progress personal and professional knowledge and skills.

About us

There's never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We're working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we've ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as 'Good', and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.

We love working here and think you will too.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications/training and professional development

• Registered Paediatric nurse
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Teaching and Assessing qualification
• Diploma/Degree in Nursing

Experience

• Experience of having worked with acute/chronically sick children
• Experience of supervising and assessing students

Skills, abilities & knowledge

• Ability to plan and prioritise care for patients
• Committed to family centered care
• Ability to work well both in a team and on own initiative
• Administration of IV drugs
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Central venous access management

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.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

£32,073 to £39,043 a yearper annum, pro rata