Staff Nurse - Childrens Service

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Registered Children's Nurse to join our multi-site team. You will deliver high-quality care to children and young people with complex health needs and work within multidisciplinary teams to support families.

Applicants must hold current NMC registration and have significant experience in pediatrics. A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential to travel between Trust sites and patient homes as required.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience caring for children and young people with complex health needs.
• Excellent communication and partnership-working skills across multidisciplinary teams.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

Skills

Excellent communication

Partnership working

Autonomous practice

Education

Registered Children's Nurse

NMC Registration

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The "must haves" for this role:

1. Registered Children's Nurse with current NMC registration.
2. Significant experience caring for children and young people with complex health needs, including safeguarding practice.
3. Excellent communication and partnership-working skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams.
4. Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it's important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don't hesitate to call: Kirsty Dobson on 07826 976133 or email: [e-mail] who'll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Person specification

Education, qualifications or training

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse
• NMC Registration
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate short courses, training and equivalent experience, in a relevant field.

Continuous Professional Development

Essential criteria

• Evidence of continuing professional development

Previous Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience of working autonomously to deliver high quality and evidence-based nursing care.
• Experience in providing supervision to junior colleagues and students in the completion of routine nursing and clinical skills.
• Uphold the Trust's values of being caring, committed and working as team through demonstrable examples and experience.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Essential criteria

• To have knowledge of Gillick competency when determining whether a child is capable of consenting to medical treatment without parental involvement.
• Proficient use of digital tools and applications including Word, Outlook and patient management systems.

Additional Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel between multiple Trust sites and non-Trust locations, including patient homes, some of which may not be easily accessible via public transport.

Our Trust's vision is 'To be a great place to get care, a great place to give care.'

This vision guides everything we do - for our patients, their carers, their families, our staff, and our partners. To achieve it, we are committed to a strong set of values that underpin the way we work:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority - we put people at the centre of everything we do.
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services - we strive for excellence in care and in our ways of working.
• Working together with you to develop innovative solutions - we collaborate with patients, carers, colleagues, and communities to deliver care that makes a difference.

These values are brought to life through our four Trust Behaviours, which are essential to how we work and the culture we create:

• Compassionate - Motivated to positively impact the wellbeing of self and others.
• Curious - Listening, learning and exploring new ideas and ways of working to continually improve what we do.
• Inclusive - Valuing diversity and championing equity by ensuring everyone feels recognised.
  able to contribute and committed to actively addressing unfairness.
• Perseverance - Demonstrates resilience and flexibility even during periods of uncertainty, to achieve goals that contribute to high quality care and services.

At Berkshire Healthcare, we foster an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs.