Staff Nurse - Paediatrics (12-month FTC)

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Knowsley; Vor Ort; GBP 32.000 - 39.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is recruiting a Staff Nurse - Paediatrics for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The post is based in Ward 3F, with access to a dedicated HDU and CHOBS, supporting around 6,000 paediatric cases annually.

Applicants must be a 1st Level Registered Nurse with current NMC registration and ongoing professional development, with UK experience and ability to start promptly. Enhanced DBS checks are required.

Qualifikationen

• Excellent communication with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels.
• Ability to prioritise and co-ordinate own workload.
• Ability to de-escalate complex situations.
• Awareness of confidentiality always.
• Computer literacy e.g. electronic patient record systems.

Aufgaben

• Formulate and implement individual patient care plans with the team leader.
• Act as named nurse or associate for a group of patients from admission to discharge.
• Participate in research or projects as directed by ward manager.
• Contribute to setting, maintaining and monitoring standards of care.
• Ensure equipment is maintained in safe working order with the equipment controller.
• Rotate onto night duty and twilight shifts as required.
• Promote effective communication with ward staff and other departments.
• Safeguard vulnerable patients in line with policy.

Kenntnisse

Communication

Prioritisation

De-escalation

Confidentiality

IT literacy

Ausbildung

1st Level Registered Nurse

Jobbeschreibung

Staff Nurse - Paediatrics (12-month FTC)

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The closing date is 18 November 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint Band 5 Staff Nurses to join our friendly, Paediatric nursing teams.

Full time and Part time, 12-month and 6-month fixed term available.

Maternity Cover until Oct 2027 and December 2027

The Paediatric Department consists of a team of experienced and dedicated Nursing and Medical staff providing care to approximately 6000 children per year, in addition approximately 800 children are admitted for surgical procedures.

Ward 3F provides 25 in-patient beds including our 2 bed state of the art dedicated high dependency (HDU) facility. An 8 bedded Children's Assessment Unit (CHOBS), is co-located alongside the Paediatric Emergency Department along with a dedicated Paediatric Phlebotomy service and Children's Dressing Clinic.

Due to current service demands, we are only able to consider applicants who have relevant UK experience. Candidates must also be available to commence employment immediately or within a very short timeframe. We regret that we cannot progress applications that do not meet these essential requirements.

An Enhanced DBS Certificate, with the checking of the Children's Barred Lists is required for this position.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible in association with the team leader for the formulation and implementation of individual patient care plans.
• To participate in the holistic assessment of patients, and to formulate and review individual patient care plans and to act as 'named nurse' or associate for a group of patients from admission to discharge as determined by the Ward Manager.
• To commenceand participate in research/special projects as directed by the ward manager.
• To contribute to the setting, maintaining and monitoring of standards of care within the ward.
• Help to ensure that all equipment is in safe working order in conjunction with the department equipment controller.
• Internal rotations onto night duty and twilight shifts are required.
• To assist in the promotion of effective communication with all ward staff and other departments as required.
• Promote the safeguarding of vulnerable patients in line with national and local policy

About us

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Job responsibilities

Proposed Interview date: TBC

Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Qualifications

• 1st Level Registered Nurse (degree/diploma)
• Current NMC Registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Knowledge & Experience

• Able to demonstrate knowledge of NMC professional standards for practice contained within the code
• Experience of working in a clinical environment
• Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• An understanding of national, regional and local NHS issues
• Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information

Skills

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels
• Effectively priorities and co-ordinates own workload
• Ability to de-escalate complex situations
• Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Awareness of the need for confidentiality always
• Computer literacy e.g. experience of electronic patient record

Other

• Frequent moderate effort for several short periods of time such as manual handling of patients and equipment.
• Frequent concentration required for drug calculation and administration
• Dealing with frequent interruptions and competing demands
• Ability to work within highly distressing or emotional circumstances e.g. end of life care
• Ability to communicate distressing information
• Ability to communicate in a challenging environment
• Able to carry out direct clinical care as required on ward or department.
• Potential blood or body fluids exposure

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.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

£32,073 to £39,043 a yearper annum, pro rata