Staff Nurse - Paediatric Critical Care

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking experienced Paediatric Nurses for their dynamic Paediatric Critical Care Unit in London. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in fast-paced environments, providing critical care to children while collaborating with a dedicated team of professionals. The organization is committed to supporting your professional development and offers flexible working arrangements to ensure a healthy work-life balance. Join a forward-thinking team that values innovation and excellence in patient care, making a significant impact on the lives of young patients and their families.

Benefits

Flexible Working Arrangements

Professional Development Opportunities

Support for Emotional Wellbeing

Comprehensive Training Programs

Qualifications

• Must be a registered nurse with relevant qualifications.
• Experience in pediatric or critical care is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality nursing care to pediatric patients.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for patient care.

Skills

Patient Care

Critical Thinking

Teamwork

Communication Skills

Clinical Assessment

Education

Registered Nurse (RN)

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Job description

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Evelina London Children Hospital Town London Salary £35,964 - £43,780 p.a inc HCA (pro rata for part timers) Salary period Yearly Closing 18/05/2025 23:59 Interview date 05/06/2025

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

We are looking for experienced Paediatric Nurses to join ourPaediatric Critical Care Unit within Evelina London.

Our critical care units are fast-paced environments, that provide endless opportunities to learn and develop. We offer a well-established, dynamic, multi-professional team with a wealth of knowledge and experience.

Our team provides critical care education both locally and regionally. We support and prepare all nurses wishing to embark on a care in critical care with the advanced skills they require.

Research evidence-based practice, risk management and staff development are actively supported and promoted.

As part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Evelina London is there for children, young people and women from London to South East England and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world.

Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in our hospitals and throughout our local community, continues to grow. We support families from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life.

Interview date: 5th June 2025

Main duties of the job

Our nurses have the opportunity to gain a wide variety of experience caring for children requiring medical and surgical management, including those undergoing complex cardiac, spinal, ENT and airway surgery, some of whom require the joint care of the many specialist services within Evelina London. Experienced nurses will have the opportunity to develop skills in ECMO, renal replacement therapy and retrieval.

If you have what it takes to be an amazing Evelina Nurse, and have the appetite to join a forward thinking, positive environment, where aspiration and innovation are encouraged, we want you to join us.

We are open to all nursing levels, including newly qualified nurses, and can work across both of our critical care units. This advert is open for applicants to work in PICU or PCCU - you will be able to specify your preference.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important life is, and how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance of responsibilities in and out of work. We are committed to supporting flexible working; we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

We are committed to supporting professional development, and have excellent training and educational offerings. Recognising that looking after babies, children and young people is incredibly rewarding, but can also bring challenge we offer amazing resources to help support our staff’s emotional wellbeing and resilience.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for full details of duties and responsibilities.

• 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.
• Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
• Will advise on the promotion of health and the prevention of illness.
• Recognise the significance of observations made, and use them to develop and initiate nursing assessments and devise a plan of care.
• Carry out those activities necessary to conduct a comprehensive assessment of a person’s nursing requirements.
• Will ensure that all patients will have a discharge plan that is safe and appropriate for their needs.
• Carry out nursing procedures and treatments, checking on and maintaining the highest possible standards.
• Work alongside the multi-disciplinary team to ascertain treatments and advise on nursing priorities.
• Take a clear and concise history from patients by assessing their health and wellbeing and complete documentation ensuring that all entries are accurate and legible and that all information systems are maintained.
• Undertake prescribed physical observations as follows: blood pressure, temperature, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height, and report exceptions appropriates.
• Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

• RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Relevant qualifications required or course to area
• Experience of working on own and in a team
• Experience of working in the relevant area
• Experiencing of co-ordinating a shift
• Completion of preceptorship
• Experience of administering intravenous drug therapy
• Supervision of junior staff
• Previous experience in other nursing fields

Skills/Knowledge/ Ability

• Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate programmes of care
• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
• Knowledge of Evidence Based Practice
• Competent in basic life support
• Ability to administer prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products
• Able to work as an effective team member
• Able to prioritise & meet deadlines
• Able to manage difficult situations
• Uses own initiative and is able to take decisions
• An understanding of Audit and Research Based Nursing Practice
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Knowledge of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance & a commitment to clinical supervision
• Knowledge of the individual’s responsibility towards health & safety
• IT skills Awareness of the structure and organisation of the NHS

Additional Information

• The ability to undertake reflective thinking on own practice
• Flexible and positive approach to work
• Manual handling of patients, using lifting aids
• Able and willing to work flexible shift patterns, internal rotation to day and night duty and unsocial hours, according to service needs

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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Our dedicated and talented staff make it their mission to provide outstanding care for our patients.

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