Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Our Children's team provide acute care across a range of clinical specialties including but not limited to: oncology, haematology, respiratory, diabetes, endocrine, neurology and day surgery. We also provide a children's community nursing team.
At QH we have 30 acute inpatient beds on Tropical Lagoon which includes 4 HDU level 2 beds. We have a children's complex discharge co-ordinator to support the most effective flow across our children's and neonatal areas and community services, also working with our tertiary hospitals to facilitate repatriating children back to QH and therefore closer to home. We have practice educators across all of children's services to provide education to all our staff in the clinical and classroom setting.
Our Children's and Young People's Assessment Unit (CYPAU) at QH is located next to Children's Emergency Department. It is a 9 bedded 24hr facility used for the assessment and treatment of children who require urgent medical care. Alongside PELC referrals and 4 CCDU (Children's clinical decision unit) chairs.
Dahlia Ward is an 8 bedded unit at King George's hospital which takes lower acuity patients combined with 4 CCDU (Children's clinical decision unit) chairs.
Main duties of the job
Tropical Bay is our day unit where we provide our oncology and Haematology services alongside our elective day care procedures. We have a 32-cot level 2 NICU, with a transitional care team working closely with our maternity colleagues enabling mums and babies to stay together and we have our community neonatal team who facilitate discharge home and continue to support at home.
* Be registered as a Children's Nurse on the NMC register.
* Identify own training needs and maintain professional development in accordance with NMC requirements.
* Demonstrate an approachable manner to all staff and facilitate mentorship and preceptorship initiatives. Develop and implement advanced practice skills with solid evidence base.
* Ensure all clinical incidents are reported as per Trust policy and assist in investigations to bring about change.
* Organise a duty rota ensuring a cost-effective use of manpower resources, to meet the patient led demands.
About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Tosin Aragbaiye, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5934. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
* RSCN, NMC Registered Children's Nurse
* Leadership qualification Evidence of Management & Child-related courses
* Clinical supervision and evidence of professional development.
Skills/ Abilities
* Strong leadership skills, able to motivate staff and build effective teams
* Member of external national forums e.g. RCN children's forums
Experience/ Knowledge
* Experienced of taking charge on shift of the ward.
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.
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