Staff Nurse - CICU

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Job summary

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a compassionate and skilled Staff Nurse for its Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. The role involves various responsibilities, including managing a nursing team and delivering high-quality care to children with complex conditions. With a fantastic education program, you will develop your expertise in pediatric nursing in a challenging yet rewarding environment.

Benefits

Career progression opportunities

Ward level educational support on shift

Competency document completion

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Nurse with relevant nursing qualification.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development in children's nursing.
• Experience working with acute/chronically sick children.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and high-quality nursing care to children.
• Assist in the management of the department and promote patient care improvement.
• Act as a role model and manage delegated responsibilities.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Compassion

Time Management

Teaching

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Job description

Main area ICU Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Mix of long days, nights and weekends.) Job ref 271-HL-7083152

Employer Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Town London Salary £35,964 - £43,780 per annum inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 08/06/2025 23:59

Staff Nurse - CICU

Band 5

Job overview

Caring. Compassionate. Skilled. Meticulous. Enthusiastic.

These are just some of the words that we’d used to describe the world-class nurses at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

Flamingo Ward is a busy 21 bedded Cardiac intensive care unit caring for children and young people with complex heart and lung problems. Common things you will see within the unit are pre and post operative patients with congenital heart disease, tracheal patients and patients in heart failure. We are a national heart and lung transplant centre and also care for patient’s ‘bridging to transplant’ on berlin hearts.

We offer a fantastic world class education programme which will help you develop your specialist knowledge and skills.

What we can offer you?

• Opportunity to develop skills involving the management of deteriorating patients, ventilation, chest drains, post-operative care, complex discharges, child development and inotropes.
• Ward level educational support on shift
• Completion of competency documents
• Career progression including education and specialist nursing roles
• Self-rostering

No paediatric practice, no problem! We welcome everyone with an interest in joining this exciting field of clinical practice.

Please note:the working pattern for this role is a mix of long days, nights and weekends. We will also not be accepting applications from Newly Registered Practitioners (NRP's) for these vacancies.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical leadership to a designated nursing team and ensure the provision of high quality nursing care to children and families.
• To act as a role model and expert clinical practitioner.
• To assist in the safe, effective and efficient management of the department within allocated resources.
• To promote a progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research and evidence based practice.
• To undertake delegated responsibility for the department in the absence of the Ward Manager.
• To be familiar with and adopt the principles of the NHS Chief Nursing Officers vision for Compassion
  In Practice (NHS Commissioning Board Dec 2012).

  GOSH Nursing recruitment FILM 2022 - YouTube

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare. GOSH is an acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex and difficult-to-treat conditions.
Together with our research partner, the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, we form the UK’s only academic Biomedical Research Centre specialising in paediatrics.
Most of the children we care for are referred from other hospitals throughout the UK and overseas. There are 60 nationally recognised clinical specialities at GOSH; the UK's widest range of specialist health services for children on one site. We believe our people are the head, the heart, the hands and the face of GOSH. Being part of our team is incredibly rewarding and you will be doing something extraordinary to the lives of the children and young people we care for. GOSH is a challenging, complex and inspiring place to work. Each and every day our people come together to support each other to deliver excellent patient care, often working to help our patients and their families navigate through demanding processes and difficult decisions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

GOSH Culture and Values

• Our Always values
• NMC Registered Nurse (appropriate to clinical speciality)
• Relevant nursing qualification
• Evidence of ongoing professional development relating to clinical speciality
• Assessor or practice supervisor qualification/experience

Experience/Knowledge

• Experience of having worked with acute/chronically sick children or specialised transferable skills
• Understanding of professional and current issues in children’s nursing
• Understanding of the importance of research and evidence-based practice
• Basic knowledge of computer skills
• Understanding of safeguarding issues according to Trust policies and procedures
• Understating or evidence of fulfilling requirements for Revalidation
• Understanding of principles of clinical governance (e.g. risk management, audit, quality)
• Experience of working as part of a diverse team.
• Experience of contributing to an inclusive workplace culture
• Understanding of nursing practice and innovation outside of GOSH
• Knowledge of clinical incidents and complaints and reporting
• Previous experience in the relevant specialty of post (preferably in an NHS setting)
• Knowledge of ward specialties

Skills/Abilities

• Ability to plan and prioritise care for patients
• Committed to family centred care
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good time management and teaching skills
• Ability to work well both in a team and on own initiative
• Ability to delegate tasks as appropriate
• Demonstrates Compassion in practice
• Administration of IV drugs
• Central venous access management

Please be advised that:

The recruitment process for all admin and clerical roles at Bands 2-4 will be a two stage recruitment process whereby shortlisted candidates will undertake an online literacy, numeracy, ICT and typing test. Only those candidates who pass the competency test will proceed to a formal interview.

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification criteria for this post will be shortlisted. Please note that where high volumes of applicants have been received, additional criteria may on occasion be used to determine the final shortlist.

We are an accredited Living Wage Employer.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.