Staff Nurse - Picu

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Nhs Trust; Ledston; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 39 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working patterns

Supernumerary orientation periods

Structured induction programmes

CPD programmes

Résumé du poste

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a newly qualified or current Band 5 children's nurse to join the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PCCU) at Leeds Children's Hospital, Leeds General Infirmary.

You will care for critically ill children across specialties within a 14 PICU / 6 HDU bedded unit, working with a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality family-centred care and develop advanced clinical skills in a specialist paediatric critical care environment.

Responsabilités

• Provide and be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised family centred, infant, child or young person focused programmes of care.
• Deliver care without supervision and take responsibility as the prime care provider for PICU and HDU patients.
• Participate in in-service training, preceptorship and mentorship of junior staff, post basic learners and students.

Description du poste

Job reference: 002300

Salary: Band 5 - £32,073-£39,043

Closing date: 21/10/2026

Department: Ward L47 PICU - LGI

Location: Leeds General Infirmary

Division: Childrens CSU

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Job Summary

We are looking for a newly qualified or current Band 5 children's nurse to join our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PCCU) at Leeds Children's Hospital.

At Leeds, we care for critically ill children from a wide range of specialties including cardiac, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), liver, medical, oncology, renal, surgery, neuro and trauma. This provides a unique opportunity to develop advanced clinical skills within a specialist paediatric critical care environment.

We are a 14 PICU and 6 HDU bedded unit with a friendly, dedicated and experienced team delivering paediatric and cardiac intensive care and high dependency care.

Working alongside experienced nurses and a wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT), you will deliver high quality intensive and HDU nursing care to critically ill children. Working within the intensive care environment allows you the opportunity to provide focused, individualised care whilst working closely with children and their families during some of the most important moments of their lives.

Why you should join our Team

Working at LTHT has many benefits including:

• Flexible working patterns to fit you & your lifestyle
• Supernumerary orientation periods
• Structured induction programmes
• Personalised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes, regardless of experience.

We are very interested in hearing from you, including those of you who are students expecting to graduate in the next nine months. Come & join our team in Leeds & become part of ‘The Leeds Way’ sharing our vision & values. Leeds Teaching hospital is rated as ‘GOOD’ & the Trust is recognised for our staff engagement, great care & rated GOOD by the Care Quality Commission. For all new starters to the Trust, we have a structured Introduction to Professional Practice (IPP) Induction programme to prepare you for working at LTHT. We also have a 6-month preceptorship framework to support you in your new role, which incorporates further education sessions & support forums

What you will bring to the role

The role is to provide and be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised family centred, infant, child or young person focused programmes of care. You will deliver care without supervision and take responsibility as the prime care provider for a PICU and HDU patients and at all times promote confidence in our commitment to provide excellent compassionate family centred, infant, child or young person focused patient care.

You will participate in the in-service training, preceptorship and mentorship of junior staff, post basic learners and students as well as maintaining your personal development.

Leeds Children's Hospital is a large secondary and tertiary hospital providing a wide range of specialities to the population of Leeds as well as the wider North Region. The jobholder will work within an environment caring for infants/neonates, children and or young people in providing child or young person focused care.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are….

• Responsible
• Open and Honest
• One Team
• Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose:

Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our priorities:

• People
• Improvement and Innovation
• Partnerships
• Outcomes

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.