Staff Nurse - Paediatric Critical Care

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Foundation Trust as a Staff Nurse in Paediatric Critical Care. This role offers opportunities to develop advanced skills in a dynamic environment. You will provide critical care to children and work in a supportive team dedicated to high-quality care and professional development.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development support

Emotional wellbeing resources

Qualifications

• Experience of working in the relevant area.
• Completion of preceptorship.
• Experience of administering intravenous drug therapy.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for high quality nursing assessment and care planning.
• Act as advocate for patients ensuring a patient-oriented approach.
• Work alongside the multi-disciplinary team to ascertain treatments.

Skills

Assessment

Teamwork

Communication

Initiative

Time Management

Education

RN1/RN2/RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse

Evidence of continuing professional development

Job description

Go back Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Staff Nurse - Paediatric Critical Care

The closing date is 18 May 2025

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.

About us

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.

Job 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 persons 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

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

£35,964 to £43,780 a yearp.a inc HCA (pro rata for part timers)