Senior Staff Nurse - Children's Emergency Department

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Camden Town is seeking a Band 6 nurse to manage shifts in the emergency department. The successful candidate will ensure high standards of care for children and their families while leading a nursing team. This role requires excellent clinical skills and experience in emergency care, providing a dynamic opportunity to advance your nursing career.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with relevant ED experience.
• Ability to oversee a nursing team and manage department flow.
• Strong leadership skills to supervise juniors.

Responsibilities

• Take charge of the busy ED on a shift-by-shift basis.
• Ensure care standards are met for children and families.
• Delegate and deploy nursing teams effectively.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical skills

Effective communication

Education

Nursing Degree

Job description

Role Overview

The successful candidate would take charge in the busy ED on a shift‑by‑shift basis and also be expected to work streaming/TW shifts to enhance the skill mix at triage.

As a Band 6 nurse you will be responsible for the day‑to‑day flow of the department by ensuring the standards of care are met for children and their family / carers whilst in the emergency department, including delegation and deployment of the nursing team in the absence of a Band 7.

Key Responsibilities

• Take charge in the busy ED on a shift‑by‑shift basis and work streaming/TW shifts to enhance the skill mix at triage.
• Ensure the standards of care for children and their family / carers are met and oversee the day‑to‑day flow of the department.
• Delegate and deploy the nursing team, including handling responsibilities in the absence of a Band 7.
• Supervise juniors delivering care and provide leadership in care to children, young people and their families in the emergency department.
• Communicate effectively with the multidisciplinary team.
• Contribute towards the effective running of the department, ensuring safe and timely care for patients.
• Carry out care without direct supervision as part of the Emergency Department team.

About Our Organisation

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT), is a community‑focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high‑quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole‑life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our Trust vision is to be exceptional in the quality of our patient care, our support for colleagues, and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three‑quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivating a culture of engagement.

We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
• Improving the experience of staff with disability.
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of Trust staff through training and development.
• Making equalities mainstream.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce is reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply, including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

How to Apply

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

Advance Your Career

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a dynamic individual with excellent clinical skills and ED experience to enhance their skills as a Band 6 in ED.