Staff Nurse - Thomas Cook Children’s Critical Care Centre
Band 5
Main area: Paediatrics
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent (Early, Long days, Nights, Weekends & Bank Holidays)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 213-NUR-DH-6919991-C
Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: King's College Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 Per Annum Including High Cost Area
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/03/2025 23:59
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.
Job overview
At the heart of King’s is the Variety Children’s Hospital (VCH) offering a wide range of services and specialities for children and young people. Within the VCH is a 16 bedded Children’s Critical Care Centre providing both high dependency (HDU) and intensive care management.
Working in the Children’s Critical Care Centre will provide you with the opportunity to care for Intensive Care and High Dependency patients admitted under a variety of specialties:
* General medicine and surgery
* Liver disease and liver transplantation
* Small bowel transplantation
Main duties of the job
Support and development opportunities are vital in our philosophy of providing the best care to our patients and valuing our staff. Development opportunities are actively encouraged, and you will be supported in gaining relevant qualifications.
The following post offers challenging opportunities for dynamic and highly motivated children’s nurses within the Children’s Critical Care Centre.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Delivering high quality, evidence-based and patient focused clinical care through:
* Delivering a high standard of evidence-based care to patients.
* Ensuring good standards of care for the patient are maintained at all times.
* Adhering to NMC Code of Professional conduct at all times.
* Involving and supporting patients, relatives, carers and friends in the care process.
* Promoting well-being and involving patients and relatives in health education.
* Ensuring clear and accurate written and verbal information is given at all times.
* Ensuring contemporaneous record keeping at all times.
* Seeking advice from more senior/experienced members of staff where appropriate.
Working effectively as part of the immediate team and wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) through:
* Liaising effectively with all members of the MDT to ensure patients’ needs are met.
* Exercising leadership and taking the initiative where appropriate.
* Providing support and advice to ward/unit staff (especially junior staff) on clinical and administrative issues.
* Liaising with discharge coordinator/bed manager to ensure effective admission/discharge of patients.
* Keeping the ward/unit sister/charge nurse informed of significant changes and/or anticipated problems.
* Observing a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of yourself, work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital.
* Ensuring the rules, policies, procedures and standards of Kings College Hospital NHS Trust Foundation are adhered to at all times.
* Maintaining patient confidentiality, dignity and privacy at all times.
* Adhering to the Trust’s policy on valuing equality and diversity.
* Strictly adhering to the National Code of Practice on Infection Control.
* Taking responsibility for your own personal development and keeping up to date with nursing and medical knowledge.
* Being aware of current research and the implications for the ward/unit specialty.
* Acting as a role model at all times and for all staff.
* Acting as practice supervisor and/or preceptor/mentor for junior and newly qualified staff.
* Participating in Trust and Divisional initiatives to develop nursing practice and support change.
Person specification
Registration & Experience
* Registered Nurse (RN1) with active NMC registration
* Acute Paediatric Experience
Skills and Competencies
* Proficiency in dispensing and administrating oral & IV medication
* Able to manage a deteriorating patient
* Able to manage patients' emotional needs and demonstrate empathy and caring
IMPORTANT
* Check your email account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you.
* If you delete the job from any of your accounts, you may be prevented from accessing further communications.
* To enquire about your application or inform us of any changes in your circumstances, please contact the named person on this advert.
* Please provide email addresses for referees where possible.
* Please review the documentation on our recruitment microsite, particularly the Trust’s criminal records checking policy.
* All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
* Please note that the closing date is given as a guide.
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between King's College London, and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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