Staff Nurse - Children's Services

Medway NHS Foundation Trust; Lewes; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gym

Active health and wellbeing programme

On-site nursery

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Medway NHS Foundation Trust in Lewes is recruiting a Staff Nurse to join the Children and Young People group. The role involves assessing and planning patient care, delivering evidence-based nursing, and supporting the ward team to ensure high-quality outcomes for children and young people.

You will work with a multidisciplinary team, have access to leadership development, and be encouraged to progress through academic pathways within the Trust.

Qualifications

• RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of working in a paediatric setting.

Responsibilities

• Assess care needs of patients and plan, implement and evaluate care.
• Manage ward duties and supervise junior staff when required.
• Deliver high quality, evidence-based nursing care from admission to discharge.

Skills

Teamwork

Independent working

Clinical assessment

Patient care

Education

RN Child Registered Nurse (NMC)

Job description

Care Group: Children and Young People

Band: 5

We are recruiting for an Staff Nursewho shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

We are a busy District General Hospital (DGH) serving the population of Medway and Swale and Medway was the first Trust in Kent to achieve foundation trust status in April 2008. Our children's emergency department has an annual attendance of over 30,000 babies, children and young people living locally

Main duties of the job

Our Children's nursing team is expanding, and is led by our Head of Nursing for Children and Young People, a Trust wide role to ensure children and young people receive high quality care wherever they access our services across the organisation. When you come here you will always be learning and developing your knowledge and ensuring your skills are kept fully up to date.

You will be supported by Paediatric Practice Development Nurse together with a friendly multidisciplinary team and a corporate training and development team. We have in house leadership programmes and work with a range of universities to ensure you can progress through academic pathways in order to support your career development.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

About us

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

• All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Job responsibilities

The post holder is responsible for assessment of care needs of patients, planning programmes of care, implementation and evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision. At times they will have management responsibility for being in charge of the ward and supervising junior members of staff.

The post holder will be a key member in relation to the development of practice on the ward. They will be working independently / autonomously and at times without direct supervision, accountable for their own professional working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centred care principles.

Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical areas, ensuring that high quality, current evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, implementation, interventions and evaluations for patients is provided from admission through to discharge.

Will be responsible for the application of knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and practical experience.

To act as advocate for patients within the area, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.

To ensure that patients receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register
• To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Knowledge

• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
• Knowledge of Evidence Based Practice

Experience

• Experience of working on own and in a team
• Experience of working in the relevant area
• To participate in or provide evidence of completion of preceptorship
• Is able to administer intravenous drug therapy/ or is willing to work towards this
• Supervision of junior staff and/or students

Values Based Question

• Give an example of a time when you have acted as a role model

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.

£32,073 to £39,043 a yearper annum/pro rata