Staff Nurse - Rainbow Ward

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust; Wigan; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a proactive Band 5 nurse to join their Children's Ward. The role involves caring for paediatric patients and includes comprehensive training and opportunities for specialization. Ideal candidates will hold a Registered Nurse Qualification and will be encouraged to develop in specific areas of interest. This contract is fixed-term, covering maternity leave, with the possibility of extension.

Benefits

Comprehensive preceptorship package

Mandatory paediatric study days

Opportunities for specialization

Qualifications

• Candidates should have a valid nurse qualification and a compassionate approach to care.
• Experience in paediatric nursing is preferred.
• Willingness to pursue specialist interests such as diabetes or asthma.

Responsibilities

• Caring for children aged 0-16 with diverse medical and surgical needs.
• Participating in internal rotation for 36 hours over 7 days.
• Completing APLS training after two years of post-qualification.

Skills

Proactive

Enthusiastic

Teamwork

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Job description

Rainbow Ward is seeking a proactive, enthusiastic Band 5 nurses to join the WWL family on our friendly Children’s Ward. The ward has benefited from recent investment to create a sensory zone, and a Teen Zone area, providing age appropriate spaces for our patients, day to day.

Rainbow ward is a 34 bedded integrated paediatric unit, including a 2 bedded HDU, caring for children aged 0 – 16 years with medical and surgical needs, giving staff who work on the ward a diverse range of patients to work with – no two days are ever the same!

We are looking to recruit to a 36 hour post, with a working pattern across 7 days (internal rotation).

NHS Employees should ideally secure their manager’s agreement for a secondment arrangement ideally prior to applying, as this will be a condition of any offer made. This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term basis as It has been established to provide cover for an employee on maternity leave and will end in 10 months or when the substantive postholder returns. Whilst this post is advertised on an acting / secondment basis there is the potential that this post may become permanent in the future.

In exchange for your hard work and dedication we offer a comprehensive preceptorship package, including medicines management training (including intravenous medications) and two mandatory paediatric study days in a rolling twelve month period. Further development opportunities exist with the chance to mentor students from UCLAN and Edgehill as they pursue their own career as a student nurse, or nurse associate.

Each member of Band 5 nurses is encouraged to pursue an area of specialist interest such as diabetes, or asthma.

Nurses will also have the opportunity to complete APLS training, subject to having completed two years post qualification training.

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and our values.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

Senior positions (Band 8a and above) may be expected to participate in an on-call rota.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Heather Dineley Job title: Ward Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01942 822304