Job summary
Are you an experienced Neonatal or Paediatric Critical Care Nurse looking for an exciting career opportunity? We are currently looking to recruit Nurses to join our transport service at band 6.
PaNDR (Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval Service) is the Neonatal and Paediatric Retrieval Service for the East of England. Whilst the teams work within their clinical speciality, the teams also work supportively and collaboratively together. Providing expert Critical Care to neonates and children up to the age of 16 years with a variety of medical and surgical conditions both at their referring hospital and in the ambulance en-route to their new care centre.
This career path will enable you to enhance your skills in stabilising and transferring some of the sickest neonates and children within a small team. You will also develop and deliver with the MDT outreach learning to our service users across the region.
A full induction process is provided with competencies surrounding the transport situation and equipment. As a team we have daily teaching and regular simulation drills to maintain our skills. Shifts include rotation between our 6 teams which cover each 24 hours, 365 days of the year.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing direct clinical care to infants requiring emergency and elective transfer.
Team working ability and leadership skills will be used to ensure safe and effective delivery of the service for staff, parents and children according to the CUH Trust values and behaviours.
About us
Come Nurse with us...
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
o Our values and reputation for outstanding care
o Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
o Career and development opportunities
o Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
o Research experience and opportunities
o Lovely location and quality of life
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
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A welcome subsidy of £1000 is available to all Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses, Midwives, ODPs and Radiographers and Band 5 Orthoptists taking up substantive employment with the Trust.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 24 November 2024
Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 2 December 2024
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. First Level NMC Registration
2. Paediatric Critical Care qualification
3. Teaching / mentorship qualification
4. Paediatric Life Support Course
5. Safeguarding level 3
Desirable
6. Enhanced Nursing Skills
7. Degree in relevant health related subject
8. Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential
9. PICU Nursing experience
10. Shift leader experience
11. Transferring children between departments internally
12. Experience of being involved in governance processes which help to development the service and measure quality
Desirable
13. Experience of Surgical Paediatric Nursing
14. Transferring children externally
Knowledge
Essential
15. Awareness of professional issues
16. Knowledge of team working dynamics
Desirable
17. Knowledge of paediatric transport developments and strategic national agenda
Skills
Essential
18. Ability to be calm under pressure
19. Effective team member
20. Able to take responsibility and use feedback for service improvement
21. Basic IT skills
Desirable
22. Budgetary skills
23. Intermediate IT skills
Additional Requirements
Essential
24. The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.