Registered Nurse - Dolphin ward

Princess Alexandra Hospital; Harlow; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Development opportunities

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust in West Essex is seeking a paediatric nurse to provide high quality, family-centred care for in-patients birth to 16 years, with a focus on evidence-based practice and advocacy for children and families. The role involves leadership, teaching, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to drive service development.

You will participate in supervision, maintain patient records, and work within Trust policies to ensure safe, compassionate care and

Qualifications

• Provide high standard of holistic family-centred nursing care.
• Develop and maintain evidence-based nursing skills.
• Act as advocate for child and family with multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Support ward team to ensure patients receive appropriate care.
• Carry out treatments prescribed by medical staff and inform changes.
• Ensure ward standards are met and report if not achieved.
• Assist in resource management including time and equipment.
• Support clinical risk, audits and incident reporting.
• Adhere to Trust policies and professional standards.
• Engage in staff development and training activities.
• Collaborate with linked universities to promote standards.

Skills

Holistic family-centred care

Leadership development

NMC Code awareness

Clinical audit participation

Supervision/teaching

Job description

Job overview

To provide effective clinical and holistic individualised family centred care to the patients and families during their in-patient admission, ensuring delivery is to the highest standard. Maintaining evidenced based practice is performed at all times, being responsible for updating own knowledge and skills in line with the Trust polices, multidisciplinary team and the NMC Code. Developing leadership skills, actively participating in service development.

Carry out all relevant forms of nursing care and patient management for children aged from birth to 16 years (this may be extended for children with chronic/complex conditions)

Participate in the supervision and teaching of new members of staff including nursing students and paramedics.

Main duties of the job

• Provide and maintain high standard of clinical effective nursing cares at all times
• To plan, implement and evaluate holistic family-centred nursing care
• To ensure all assessments and care plans are completed and reviewed in a timely manner along with contemporaneous record keeping
• To proactively start planning discharges from admission, liaising with the multidisciplinary team, other departments and community services as necessary.
• To act as an advocate for the child and family representing best interest of the child, young person.
• To develop and maintain evidence-based nursing skills to support a range of clinical conditions
• To have a knowledge of the commonly used drugs in paediatrics and to undertake the relevant drug administration competencies
• To use the Trust’s Electronic Patient Record System- Alex Health to ensure data is entered in an accurate and timely fashion, in accordance with Trust policy and procedure.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) is proud to care for the communities of West Essex, delivering safe, compassionate, and high-quality services. We are part of the Neighbourhood Wave—a national programme that’s changing how care is delivered by focusing on prevention, early support, and more joined-up services across health, social care, and the voluntary sector.

This means we’re working more closely with local partners to bring care closer to home and support people to live healthier, more independent lives.

We’re a supportive and inclusive organisation that values its people. We offer development opportunities, flexible working, and a strong focus on wellbeing. As a Disability Confident and equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences.

Join us and help shape the future of care in West Essex.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To support other members of the ward team to ensure that all patients receive appropriate care.
• To ensure that treatments prescribed by the medical staff are carried out and that multidisciplinary team members are informed of changes in the patient’s condition.
• To ensure quality care is given by being familiar with agreed ward and Trust standards of care and to inform senior nursing staff if the required standard could not be reached.
• To assist in ensuring that allocated resources are managed effectively and efficiently. This includes effective utilisation of time and equipment.
• To assist in ensuring the safety of the ward, actively participating in clinical audit, clinical risk and quality issues, including reporting of critical / clinical incidents.
• To demonstrate a professional approach to work and act in accordance the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• To have knowledge of and adhere to ward and Trust policies and professional standards
• To participate in staff appraisal, staff development and in-service training activities.
• To work in co-operation with the Trust’s linked universities in order to provide uniformity and promotion of professional standards.
• Reporting and recording accidents and untoward incidents according to Trust Policy and Guidelines
• Identifies own learning needs and receives appropriate supervision in line with trust policy.
• To have a knowledge of Safeguarding Policies and Procedures in accordance to trust policy
• Take account of own behaviours and its effect on others
• Identifies and will act if other’s behaviours undermine equality and diversity
• Aware of Trusts equal opportunity policy