Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse - Children's Ward
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced Band 5 or Band 6 Nurse looking to develop your career?
We are keen to recruit an experienced Paediatric Nurse who is looking to develop their professional leadership and clinical skills within our amazing team in Children's Services at Colchester Hospital, which has recently been approved as a High Dependency Unit Level 2 Unit.
At East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, we deliver high quality, compassionate care and strive to provide a positive patient experience in a safe environment.
We are a 20 Bedded Children's Ward with 2 HDU Level 1 Beds and 1 Level 2 bed, caring for patients requiring a number of high dependency interventions including CPAP, BiPAP and Long Term Ventilation.
We value our workforce and make sure you can achieve your full potential. If you have the skills for the role, then we would love to hear from you.
We have full time and part time hours available.
Main duties of the job
1. To effectively manage and develop the nursing team within the Children's Ward and provide professional and clinical leadership in the delivery of high quality, safe, cost effective care to children, families and staff.
2. To work with nurses and other identified team members (MDT) on a one to one/group basis and enhance clinical skills and practice across areas where children are cared for.
3. To deputize for the ward/unit manager to ensure appropriate senior cover at all times.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals, we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience
* Clinical expertise within specialty
* Involvement with audit and implementation of change
Qualifications
* Registered Children's Nurse
* Mentorship / teaching qualification
* EPLS / APLS certificate
* High Dependency Level 1 Qualification
* High Dependency Level 2 Qualification
Knowledge
* NMC Code of conduct
Skills
* Leadership, Organisational, Communication
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.
Salary: £37,338 to £44,962 per annum pro rata.
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