Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking for experienced Paediatric Nurses to join our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit within Evelina London.
Our critical care unit is a fast-paced environment that provides endless opportunities to learn and develop. We offer a well-established, dynamic, multi-professional team with a wealth of knowledge and experience.
Our team provides critical care education both locally and regionally. We support and prepare all nurses wishing to embark on a career in critical care with the advanced skills they require.
Research evidence-based practice, risk management, and staff development are actively supported and promoted.
As part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Evelina London is there for children, young people, and women from London to South East England and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world.
Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in our hospitals and throughout our local community, continues to grow. We support families from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood, and into adult life.
Closing date: 04th March 2025 at Midnight
Main duties of the job
Our nurses have the opportunity to gain a wide variety of experience caring for children requiring medical and surgical management, including those undergoing complex cardiac, spinal, ENT, and airway surgery, some of whom require the joint care of the many specialist services within Evelina London. Experienced nurses will have the opportunity to develop skills in ECMO, renal replacement therapy, and retrieval.
If you have what it takes to be an amazing Evelina Nurse, and have the appetite to join a forward-thinking, positive environment where aspiration and innovation are encouraged, we want you to join us.
Post qualification experience is required for this role, and we are not currently accepting newly qualified nurses. For NQN applications, please await an NQN vacancy.
This advert is open for applicants to work in PICU or PCCU - you will be able to specify your preference.
Job responsibilities
* Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical areas, ensuring that high-quality, current evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, implementation, interventions, and evaluations for patients is provided from admission through to discharge.
* Will be responsible for the application of knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
* To act as an advocate for patients within the area, ensuring a patient-oriented approach to the delivery of care and meeting standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
* To ensure that patients receive high-quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs, and doctrines.
* Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of individuals.
* Will advise on the promotion of health and the prevention of illness.
* Recognise the significance of observations made, and use them to develop and initiate nursing assessments and devise a plan of care.
* Carry out those activities necessary to conduct a comprehensive assessment of a person's nursing requirements.
* Will ensure that all patients have a discharge plan that is safe and appropriate for their needs.
* Carry out nursing procedures and treatments, checking on and maintaining the highest possible standards.
* Work alongside the multi-disciplinary team to ascertain treatments and advise on nursing priorities.
* Take a clear and concise history from patients by assessing their health and wellbeing and complete documentation ensuring that all entries are accurate and legible and that all information systems are maintained.
* Undertake prescribed physical observations as follows: blood pressure, temperature, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight, and height, and report exceptions appropriately.
* Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
* RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of specialty.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Relevant qualifications or courses related to the area.
* Experience of working independently and in a team.
* Experience of working in the relevant area.
* Experience of coordinating a shift.
* Completion of preceptorship.
* Experience of administering intravenous drug therapy.
* Supervision of junior staff.
* Previous experience in other nursing fields.
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
* Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate programmes of care.
* Up-to-date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
* Knowledge of Evidence-Based Practice.
* Competent in basic life support.
* Ability to administer prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products.
* Able to work as an effective team member.
* Able to prioritise & meet deadlines.
* Able to manage difficult situations.
* Uses own initiative and is able to make decisions.
* An understanding of Audit and Research-Based Nursing Practice.
* Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
* Knowledge of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
* Knowledge of Clinical Governance & a commitment to clinical supervision.
* Knowledge of the individual's responsibility towards health & safety.
* IT skills and awareness of the structure and organisation of the NHS.
Additional Information
* The ability to undertake reflective thinking on own practice.
* Flexible and positive approach to work.
* Manual handling of patients, using lifting aids.
* Able and willing to work flexible shift patterns, internal rotation to day and night duty and unsocial hours, according to service needs.
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.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
£35,964 to £43,780 a year p.a. inc HCA (pro rata for part timers)
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