Specialist Nurse - Children and Young People

NHS; East Horsley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Spire Gatwick Park is seeking a qualified Children's Nurse for a permanent full-time role. The position involves providing care for children and young people in a surgical setting, ensuring excellent standards of holistic patient care. Ideal candidates will have significant paediatric experience and be committed to developing services to enhance patient care. Join a supportive team in a dynamic environment focused on high-quality health delivery.

Benefits

35 days annual leave including bank holidays

Employer and employee contributory pension

Bupa wellness screening

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience in a surgical paediatrics setting.
• EPALS certification required.
• Must be able to work autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Provide pre- and post-operative care to children.
• Liaise with parents and make recommendations to improve well-being.
• Risk assess suitability for admissions.

Skills

Communication

Emotional Support

Risk Assessment

Education

NMC Registered Sick Children's Nurse

Job description

Spire Gatwick Park are looking to recruit a qualified Children's nurse to join the team on a permanent full-time basis to cover the paediatric list. As a Paediatric Nurse, you will be integral in helping to develop this service ensuring that Spire Gatwick Park can offer patients and their families excellent and safe standards of care.

Spire Gatwick Park Hospital offers world-class care and is part of one of the UKs most respected private hospital groups. With a full multidisciplinary medical team, were specialists in a wide range of treatments that can be personalised to your needs. At Spire Gatwick Park Hospital, our facilities are designed to be child and young person friendly, and we have a dedicated children's waiting room and play area.

Our children and young peoples clinics are run with the assistance of our specialised nursing team to help support and guide families and their children through the outpatient process and any further investigations that may be required. We offer a specialised surgery service for children aged three and over and outpatient consultations from birth.

Main duties of the job

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Providing pre- and post-operative care to children and young people, assisting in their recovery and getting them ready for discharge this will include wound care, assisting with personal care and providing emotional support at what can be a stressful time
• Liaising with parents, guardians and consultants giving advice and making recommendations to improve the patients wellbeing, whilst also being adept at identifying a deteriorating patient and making on the spot, informed decisions
• Risk assessing children and young people regarding suitability for admission
• Providing RCN support during paediatric clinics, assisting with minor operations and Phlebotomy.
• Working as part of a small team with the opportunity to help run and grow the service according to needs

About us

At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion. We have been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 25 years. We're committed to looking after people, both patients and staff. We deliver high standards of care to our insured, self-pay and NHS patients across 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms. Our successful business is led by an experienced and stable senior management team, we provide the highest quality of care through the latest medical technology, new facilities, and a focus on inspiring leadership and employee development.We have achieved our market leading position because of our Purpose, which is to 'make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care'. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated 'Good' or 'Outstanding' by the Regulators; these are sector leading standards.

Job responsibilities

Who we are looking for:

• NMC Registered Sick Childrens Nurse with no restriction on practise
• EPALS
• At least 2 years post qualification experience working within paediatrics ideally in a surgical setting
• Excellent understanding of CQC criteria
• You must be willing to learn and help support the day to day running of the paediatric service
• Be able to work autonomously with no supervision

Working Hours:Shifts between 8am - 8pm. Shifts can be any days Monday-Saturday varied on a rota basis.

Contract: Permanent

We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
• Spire for you reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
• Free Bupa wellness screening
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance

Our Values

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion
• Keeping it simple
• Succeeding and celebrating together

Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

Closing Date:If we have received sufficient applications, this date may be brought forward so please submit your application as soon as possible.

For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Charlotte Oliver [e-mail]

About Us

At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion. We have been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 25 years. Were committed to looking after people, both patients and staff. We deliver high standards of care to our insured, self-pay and NHS patients across 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms. Our successful business is led by an experienced and stable senior management team, we provide the highest quality of care through the latest medical technology, new facilities, and a focus on inspiring leadership and employee development.

We have achieved our market leading position because of our Purpose, which is to 'make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care'. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated Good or Outstanding by the Regulators; these are sector leading standards.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Please see below

Experience

• Please see below

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.

Povey Cross Rd, Hookwood, Horley RH6 0BB

Povey Cross Rd, Hookwood, Horley RH6 0BB