Paediatric Senior Staff Nurse - Children's Emergency Department
We are looking for a dynamic Band 6 Paediatric Nurse to join our committed and enthusiastic team, as the Children’s Emergency Department grows. We provide care to 45,000 children from across South West of England each year, and our services are continually growing. We put children and young people at the centre of everything we do and have strong links with a departmental based research team to keep our care up to date and innovative.
As a strong and receptive multidisciplinary leadership team, we are committed to guiding and supporting your development with us. 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. Education will include specialist education on major trauma, major incidents, minor illness and injuries, and mental health, as well as learning through immersive, multi-disciplinary simulation.
We are dedicated to the wellbeing of staff, with departmental wellbeing weeks, team check-ins, and access to a range of Trust-wide initiatives including support services.
To assume responsibility for undertaking tasks delegated by the sister/charge nurse including mentoring roles, auditing, and clinical governance. To promote a ward/department environment that is conducive to learning, supporting and participating in the supervision/teaching of the more junior and/or new staff, both nursing and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
Interview date: TBC
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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Sarah Plaxton
Job title: Ward Sister
Email address: sarah.plaxton@UHBristol.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01173428346
Lucinda Morse - Matron, lucinda.morse@uhbw.nhs.uk
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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