Registered Paediatric Nurse

NHS; Burton upon Trent; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Burton upon Trent is seeking a motivated Registered Paediatric Nurse to join their Paediatric Ward. The role involves caring for patients aged 0-16 with various medical needs, ensuring family involvement in care. A qualification in children's nursing and a year of post-registration experience are preferred. This position offers development opportunities and various staff benefits including gym membership and training support.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Qualifications

• Preferably hold RSCN or RN child branch qualification.
• Minimum of a year post registration experience.
• Experience caring for oncology/haematology patients.

Responsibilities

• Care of medical, surgical and mental health patients.
• Patient observations using NPEWS.
• Safeguarding.

Skills

Patient observations using NPEWS

Family centred care

Analytical and judgemental skills

Planning and organisational skills

Flexibility according to needs of the service

Education

Current NMC Registration

Paediatric Qualification

Job description

Go back University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Registered Paediatric Nurse

The closing date is 13 October 2025

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Registered Nurse to work on Ward 1 at Queen's Hospital Burton.

We are seeking a motivated registered children's nurse to work within our Paediatric Ward.

We are an 8 bedded inpatient ward caring for a range of patients from 0-16 years of age. Ward 1 cares for patients with a wide range of medical, surgical and mental health needs. We also are a paediatric shared care unit for oncology patients from Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Alongside our inpatient beds we also run a surgical and medical day case 3 times a week. The day case area cares for a wide variety of patients from ENT surgery to allergy tests and regular infusions.

The post will involve a variety of shifts over a 7 days week including bank holidays, rotating between night and day shifts.

Ward 1 has a committed philosophy of Family Centred Care where parents/carers are actively encouraged to be involved in their baby/child's care with support and education from the nursing staff.

Preferably applicants should hold RSCN or RN child branch qualification alongside relevant experience. However, we will also consider applications from newly qualified nurses and nursing associates.

We will support you through a wide range of in-house study days and training, we work very closely with our clinical educators to enhance learning.

Main duties of the job

Patient observations using NPEWS

Care of medical, surgical and mental health patients

Safeguarding

Family centred care

Closing date of applications: 13 October 2025

Date of interview: 27 October 2025

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC Registration
• Paediatric Qualification
• Analytical and judgemental skills
• Planning and organisational skills
• Knowledge training and experience
• Flexibility according to needs of the service
• Has previous experience of Children's Inpatients

Communication

Experience

• Minimum of a year post registration experience
• Experience caring for oncology/haematology patients
• Critical care/ HDU experience

English and Maths

• Excellent level of spoken and written English
• Confident with paediatric drug calculations

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.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust