South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
At SWFT we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, compassionate, and self-motivated Children's Nurse within the Paediatric Departments at Warwick Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a rotational basis covering our Children's Emergency Department attendances; acute paediatric ward and Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU).
The Paediatric Assessment Unit is comprised of 5 beds, taking referrals from GP's, community specialists, and The Emergency Department. MacGregor Ward comprises of 17 inpatient Paediatric beds (including High Dependency). Our busy Emergency Department attends to over 22000 children and young people annually. We are a flexible employer and welcome applicants seeking the challenge and opportunity to care for children and young people across elective and emergency services.
Our paediatric services support a culture of continuous learning and development. Successful applicants will benefit from professional and personal development through our Clinical Learning Leads, Trust Learning and Development teams and the support of our specialist multi-disciplinary team.
Care and compassion in managing our paediatric patients and families is at the heart of our services. Therefore, successful candidates will demonstrate these qualities on a daily basis and have the drive to meet the challenges of our busy and stimulating work environment.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for maintaining standards and quality in the day-to-day management of the unit. This role will enable you to gain and demonstrate skills in leadership and people management within the clinical environment. Your primary responsibilities will be to care for the children and young people who attend the unit, inclusive of supporting and developing junior staff by being a mentor and role model.
The postholder will:
* Provide a high standard of nursing care for infants, children and young people, within a family centred environment, in accordance with department philosophy.
* Provide support for junior colleagues, students, clinical leads and ward manager, adhering to national and trust guidelines.
* Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to take charge of any nursing shift as required.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition, our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job responsibilities
Organisational:
* Ensure all Trust wide and departmental processes, protocols and procedures are understood and adhered to by all staff.
* Ensure strategies are in place to enable the A&E performance targets to be met; escalating, as per the Escalation Policy, to the appropriate level when needed. Completing breach analysis during each shift.
* Manage staff sickness ensuring that the department has minimum safe staffing levels; escalation to Clinical Nursing Lead if appropriate cover is not maintained.
* Assist in the investigation of complaints/clinical incidents as necessary.
* Foster good working relationships with other paediatric wards and departments within the Trust.
* Supervise junior staff through a shift, prioritising and delegating as appropriate.
* Manage all resources to the maximum benefit of patients and the service, being aware of resource implications specific to the department.
* Promote effective communication within the nursing team, to patients and carers, visitors, members of the multi-disciplinary team and external agencies, receive and report sensitive information.
* Participate in the setting, implementing and monitoring of organisation and local objectives.
* Promote, and participate in, collaborative working relationships with the multi-disciplinary team.
* Act as a positive role model for other staff.
* Act as an advocate for patients.
* Utilise clinical and risk assessment skills to maintain a safe environment.
Clinical:
* To be competent to assess, plan, delivery and manage episodes of care, participating in all aspects of care from arrival through to discharge/admission/transfer.
* To be an effective practitioner and demonstrate the ability to deliver a high standard of patient care.
* Organise the method of care delivery within a clinical area; prioritising, allocating and delegating effectively.
* To identify and act upon situations which may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of patients.
* Liaise with other agencies and professionals to ensure effective patient management and care.
* Support and guide junior staff in delivering high standards of nursing care.
* Monitor, maintain and review regularly standards of care in conjunction with other members of the multi-disciplinary and safeguarding teams.
* Maximise opportunities for health promotion and health education.
* Act as a resource person to others, providing information to junior staff, multidisciplinary team members, patients, and relatives.
* Initiate and take part in clinical audit.
* Keep abreast of new developments in paediatric nursing, and specialty specific information.
* Be competent in appropriate areas of role expansion, and support this development in others.
* Be professionally accountable for own actions during working shift.
* Promote and comply with all NMC professional standards.
Professional:
* Take responsibility for own personal and professional development, maintaining clinical credibility and competence at all times.
* To provide leadership and support to all staff, ensuring clinical practice is up to date and evidence based.
* Have effective communication skills at all levels.
* Early informal management of complaints with the aim of satisfactory resolution. Ensure appropriate escalation when this is not achieved.
* To abide by Infection Prevention and Control policies relevant to your area of work, and undertake the necessary level of training. This will be appraised through the KSF review process or other relevant professional review process.
* To accept responsibility for the provision of effective prevention and control within the Trust in liaison with the Trust's Infection Control Team.
* To act as a role model in applying good infection control practice and ensures compliance with all infection control policies.
Strategic and Service Responsibility:
* In all aspects of work demonstrate an ability to work across organizational and professional boundaries, ensuring high quality of care.
* Promote collaborative working relationships and effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team.
* Actively seek to improve and develop the emergency care process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RCN, Current NMC registration.
* Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training, experience, short courses.
* Recognised Teaching and Assessing qualification.
* PILS.
* EPALS.
Experience
* Significant post registration band 5 paediatric experience.
* Experience in working to achieve the National Performance Targets.
* Evidence of personal and professional development in the last 12 months.
* Experience of coordinating a Paediatric A&E department and managing Paediatric resus.
Skills
* High standard of clinical nursing skills: Triage, Cannulation, Venepuncture, IV drug administration, ECG recording.
* Sound knowledge of evidence-based practice.
* Managing patient flows in response to Emergency Care Targets.
* Ability to calculate paediatric drug dosages.
* Knowledge of change management.
* Knowledge of specialty.
* Knowledge of NHS priorities.
* Competence in extended roles: Wound Care, Suturing, Nurse Requested X-ray, Experience of using PGD's.
* Involvement of Clinical Audit.
* Teaching Skills.
Personal Qualities
* Leadership abilities.
* Organisational skills.
* Ability to support and guide others.
* Ability to prioritise.
* Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Ability to deal with and diffuse conflict situations.
* Commitment to personal and professional development.
* Commitment to development of others.
* Ability to work within a high turnover/pressurised environment on a daily basis.
* Flexible and responsive to change.
Other Job Requirements
* Flexible and adaptable.
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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