Staff Nurse - Children's Services (Fixed-term)

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

Job summary

Medway NHS Foundation Trust in Kent is recruiting a Staff Nurse for Paediatrics on a 12-month fixed-term contract. Join a busy District General Hospital team dedicated to delivering the Best of Care by the Best People and supporting your ongoing professional development.

You will work within our Children’s nursing team under the Paediatric Practice Development Nurse, with opportunities to progress through academic pathways and a commitment to flexible working to meet service needs.

Job description

Staff Nurse - Paediatrics (Fixed-term Contract)

Division: Women, Children & Young People

Care Group: Women & Children's

Band: 5

Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum/ pro rata

We are recruiting for an Staff Nurse for a 12 month fixed term contract who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and 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

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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Sharman Job title: Matron Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01634 976149