A Vacancy at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
Registered Nursing Associate – Bristol Royal Hospital For Children
Ambulatory Departments
Are you a Registered Nursing Associate looking for an exciting new opportunity? We are delighted to invite you to join our dynamic team within the ambulatory areas primarily at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.
As the tertiary centre for paediatrics in the South West and South Wales, the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children provides specialist care for children from across the region. Within our ambulatory services, you’ll have the chance to work in various locations, including:
• Carousel, Rainforest and Fairground Outpatients, and Puzzle Wood(based at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children)
• Seashore(located at Weston General Hospital)
• Clinics atSt Michael’s HospitalandSouth Bristol Hospital
This role offers a unique opportunity to develop your skills while experiencing a variety of clinical settings.
Why Join Us?
We understand that your Nursing Associate training equips you to care for patients across their lifespan. However, we also recognise that your experience with paediatric care may be limited. That’s why we provide a comprehensive induction and bespoke training to help you build confidence in caring for children and their families. You’ll learn how to meet their unique needs, taking into account their age, developmental stage, and social and health circumstances.
About the Role
The Ambulatory Team provides care across multiple specialities, giving you the chance to expand your skills in a variety of dynamic environments. Some samples of what we offer:
• Puzzle Woodis a small but versatile team supporting follow-up appointments, rapid access clinics, and "hot" clinics. It also manages six beds that accommodate therapies such as gastroenterology and rheumatology infusions, endocrine and metabolic tests, and food challenges.
• Carousel and Fairgroundsee a high volume of patients from a wide variety of specialities, including general medicine, dermatology, respiratory, cardiology, and trauma and orthopaedics.
• Rainforestspecialises in burns and plastics but also cares for patients with spinal, neuromuscular, and neurosurgical conditions.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description including the main responsibilities and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
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Our Faculty of Children’s Nurse Education offers specific training for new recruits in paediatric care as well as numerous education events to facilitate professional development and practice performance covering many paediatric specialties. With Clinical Skills Facilitators you’ll have the opportunity to undertake a bespoke package of learning that can be adapted to your experience and achieve both hospital and departmental competencies.
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Jan 2025
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