Sister/Charge Nurse

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site leisure facilities

Subsidised parking

Staff pod break spaces

Job summary

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting experienced nurses to join the Paediatric Transport Service as Band 6. You will provide direct clinical care to infants during emergency and elective transfers, rotate across three teams and support a 24/7 service across East of England.

The PaNDR service collaborates with referring hospitals and ambulance transfers, offering opportunities to develop advanced critical care skills and contribute to outreach education with the MDT.

Qualifications

• Paediatric Critical Care qualification
• Teaching/mentorship qualification
• Paediatric Life Support Course
• Safeguarding level 3, Enhanced Nursing Skills
• Leadership qualification, PICU nursing experience
• Shift leader experience
• Transferring children between departments internally
• Experience of governance processes which help to development the service and measure quality
• NHS experience

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical care to infants requiring emergency and elective transfers.
• Rotate across three teams delivering a 24/7 service 365 days a year.
• Contribute to outreach education and develop learning with the MDT.
• Support family-centred care within the Paediatric Transport Service.

Skills

Team working

Leadership

Emotional intelligence

Calm under pressure

Feedback for service improvement

IT skills

Education

Degree in relevant health related subject

Job description

You will be responsible for providing direct clinical care to infants requiring emergency and elective transfer. Team working ability and leadership skills will be used to ensure safe and effective delivery of the service for staff, parents and children according to the CUH Trust values and behaviours. We provide a comprehensive induction programme, including transport-specific competencies and specialist equipment training. Ongoing professional development is embedded into our culture, with daily teaching sessions and regular simulation training to keep your skills sharp and current. You'll rotate across three teams, delivering a 24/7 service, 365 days a year. If you're looking to be part of a friendly, forward-thinking, and innovative team committed to delivering family-centred care to critically ill children, we'd love to hear from you., CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

• First Level Registration
• Paediatric Critical Care qualification
• Teaching / mentorship qualification
• Paediatric Life Support Course
• Safeguarding level 3, Enhanced Nursing Skills
• Degree in relevant health related subject
• Leadership qualification, PICU nursing experience
• Shift leader experience
• Transferring children between departments internally
• Experience of being involved in governance processes which help to development the service and measure quality, Experience of surgical paediatric nursing
• Transferring children externallyNHS experience, Awareness of professional issues
• Knowledge of team working dynamics
• Emotional intelligence, Organised
• Ability to be calm under pressure
• Effective team member
• Able to take responsibility and use feedback for service improvement
• Basic IT skills, The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.

We're excited to invite experienced nurses to join our Paediatric Transport Service at Band 6--a unique and highly rewarding career opportunity.

PaNDR (Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval Service) is the dedicated neonatal and paediatric retrieval service for the East of England. Our neonatal and paediatric teams work within their specialist areas while collaborating closely to deliver seamless, high-quality critical care. Together, we provide expert stabilisation and retrieval for neonates and children up to 16 years of age, supporting them both at referring hospitals and during ambulance transfers to specialist care centres. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to expand your advanced critical care skills, working within a small, highly skilled team to stabilise and transport some of the sickest children and young people in the region. You'll also play an active role in outreach education, developing and delivering learning alongside the MDT to healthcare teams across the East of England.

Come Nurse with us... Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live. You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health‑care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

As there is a 12-week probationary period, successful candidates are expected to have the Right to Work for a period of at least 6 months from the proposed start date. Immigration and Right to Work status will be discussed with successful candidates at conditional offer. CUH will not offer sponsorship to candidates that have applied for a fee waiver. Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full-time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full-time permanent contract unless you have:- applied for a Graduate visa- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment.

Benefits to you At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff. On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.