Paediatric Staff Nurse - Paediatric Assessment Unit

Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 38,000; 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. You will work as part of a friendly multi-disciplinary team caring for children aged 0-16 years, with a focus on high quality, family-centred care.

We welcome nurses at all levels, including newly qualified staff or adult nurses with paediatric experience, and offer opportunities to develop within a growing paediatric service and a digitally advancing

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with current NMC registration.
• Open to newly qualified nurses or adult nurses with paediatric experience.
• Experience in paediatrics preferred.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Paediatric care

Nursing registration

Job description

Paediatric Staff Nurse - Paediatric Assessment Unit

A Vacancy at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.

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.

• 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.

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-arthospital 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) willreplace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care atThe Queen Elizabeth Hospitaland 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 organisationthat upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement,recentlydemonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspectionratingour 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, pridingourselves 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.

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

This advert closes on Thursday 12 Nov 2026