Staff Nurse

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Staff Nurse for the Ocean Day Unit in the Children’s Outpatient department. The role is permanent, 37.5 hours per week, across 5 rostered days.

You will join a team delivering high standards of paediatric care and benefit from in-house study courses and postgraduate education through Middlesex University. The Paediatric nursing team forms part of Integrated Children's Services at North Middlesex University Hospital and links with the Royal Free

Qualifications

• Passionate and committed to delivering high standards of care.

Responsibilities

• Assess care needs for all patients and ensure planned care is implemented and evaluated.
• Work with minimal supervision as part of the nursing team at North Middlesex University Hospital Trust.
• Provide care within the Ocean Day Unit without supervision to prevent admission or reduce hospitalisation, and support students.
• Collaborate with the Ocean Day Unit Nursing Team with guidance from Band 5/6 staff nurses and the Ward Manager.
• Contribute to assessment, planning and implementation of evidence-based care for children and their families, working with other agencies to ensure seamless service.

Job description

We are seeking to appoint dynamic and enthusiastic candidate to the role of Staff Nurse within our Ocean Day Unit situated within our Children's Outpatient department. This role is offered as a permanent role working 37.5 hours per week across 5 x days as rostered. If you would like to become part of a team delivering excellent care and take advantage of many opportunities available to you, we would like to meet you. We can offer you excellent educational opportunities from in house study courses to post graduate education through Middlesex University. To apply for this post, you must be passionate and committed to delivering high standards of care, and need to ensure that all the people who use our services have a positive experience. The Paediatric nursing team forms part of the Integrated Children's services at North Middlesex University Hospital and is part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

• The postholder will work under the direction of the Ward Manager - Children's Outpatients with responsibility for the assessment of care needs for all patients, ensuring appropriately planned care is both implemented and evaluated.
• The postholder is expected to work with minimal supervision and will be designated to work as part of the nursing team at North Middlesex University Hospital Trust.
• The postholder will provide care within the Ocean Day Unit without supervision to facilitate the prevention of admission or reduction in hospitalisation, and will act as an effective clinical support for students.
• The postholder will work as part of the Ocean Day Unit Nursing Team with support from the cohort of Band 5/6 Staff Nurses and Band 7 Ward Manager.
• The postholder is expected to contribute to the assessment, planning, and implementation of evidence-based care to children and their families and carers, and work in a collaborative manner with other agencies to ensure a seamless service for the children.

Circumstances may arise for the post holder to assist in providing clinical cover in all areas of the paediatric unit. North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICs's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICs infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches. We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.