Paediatric Registered Nurse - Emergency Department - Peterborough
Band 5
- Main area
- Emergency Department
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 176-E-RW-3798581-F
- Site
- Peterborough City Hospital
- Town
- Peterborough
- Salary
- £27,055 - £32,934 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/03/2023 23:59
We run three busy hospital sites at Peterborough, Huntingdon and Stamford and provide outpatient services in two community hospitals in Ely and Doddington. Our 6,000 staff serve a growing population of 750,000 across North Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.
As a larger organisation we have increased opportunities to enhance services, ensuring we provide the best patient experience and clinical outcomes. For our staff this means they can experience a wide and varied career within the one organisation. We offer a real commitment to supporting your career in an environment where your skills and ideas are valued, where you are supported in developing your full potential and where your individual contribution is recognised, respected and rewarded.
Job overview
Do you want to be part of a growing modern team during an exciting time?
Are you a registered children's nurse? If so, we now have a paediatric band 5 vacancy in our Emergency Department. We are undergoing some major changes such as relocating the Urgent Treatment Centre into the Emergency Centre footprint. This unit will run alongside our existing ED and as a band 5 with us you will be expected to rotate through this area and will gain minor injury experience.
Part time hours will be considered.
*** We are also offer a welcome payment of £1000 to new joiners ***
***If you are an overseas candidate, you must have passed your IELTS and must have an Live NMC registration in order to apply***
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has risen for a friendly, motivated and enthusiastic Children’s Nurse to join our Paediatric Nursing Team within a fast-paced Children and Young People's Emergency Department.
Band 5 opportunities include:
Protected Supernumerary period
Band 5 orientation / competency booklet
Self-Rostering / Flexible working policy
Mindfulness and wellbeing at work
Opportunities to be involved in quality improvement / change management
Opportunities for further study - Leadership courses / TNCC / HMIMMS/ CBRN / ATLS observer courses as well as lots of in house teaching opportunities you can access at all levels
Career progression opportunities
If you are dynamic, passionate and proactive, looking for a new challenge and want to be part of a developing team then we would be pleased to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
Our teams work hard to be flexible and promote a health work/home life balance and so agile working options are automatically considered for all roles within the Trust. Talk to the Recruiting Manager about what this means in practice for you.
Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
- Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
- Free staff car parking on all our hospital sites during this financial year
- In-house Physiotherapy Services
- Career development and training opportunities
- Emotional Wellbeing Service covering a range of online support, access to mobile apps and 24/7 counselling services
- Subsidised meals at our hospital restaurants
- Access to exclusive discounts, cashback and vouchers via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card
If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team North West Anglia
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will need to be a Registered Nurse (Child)/RSCN and ideally you should have a minimum of 6 months post registration experience.
You will embrace new ideas and innovative ways of working whilst providing high quality care. You will have opportunities to care for children from initial assessment through to minors, majors and the resuscitation area.
We have an excellent competency and development programme and you will be supported and guided by our Paediatric Sister and Clinical Educators. You will have the opportunity to learn and expand on existing skills including, basic and advanced plastering, wound care, venepuncture and cannulation and the care of the critically ill child or young person.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- RCN
- Current NMC registration
- Evidence of professional development
Desirable criteria
- 6 months post registration experience
- Degree in Paediatric Nursing
- Post Registration Course
- PILS
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to work in a busy demanding area
- Able to relate anatomy and physiology to clinical practice
- Able to function as part of a multi-professional team
Desirable criteria
- Willing to teach and mentor others
- Evidence of implementing innovation in practice
- Experience of looking after the critically unwell child
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Leah Hawtin
- Job title
- Emergency Department Sister
- Email address
- leah.hawtin@nhs.net
- Telephone number
- 01733 261681
- Additional information
Kirsty Barber Emergency Department Sister
Kirsty.barber@nhs.net
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Resourcing Department
Hinchingbrooke Hospital
Hinchingbrooke Park
Huntingdon
Cambs
PE29 6NT
- Telephone
- 01480 416741
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