Job overview
Rainbow Centre for Children and Young People based at Newham University Hospital is one of three children’s acute sites within Barts Health NHS Trust.
Rainbow centre is a lively forward-thinking unit providing a service to a diverse and multi-cultural area of east London. Rainbow Centre consists of 18 acute beds caring for children aged between 0-16 years with acute nursing and medical needs. We have an Outpatient department and a Day care unit.
The award-winning staff are renowned for their friendliness and can-do attitude and always extend a warm welcome to new members and visitors to the unit.
We have a strong supportive team who will assist you with developing your clinical experience and skills. You will be professionally and personally supported by our senior nursing team and professional development team.
We offer a robust preceptorship programme and an onsite internal development programme. We work closely with our Higher Education partners and support nurses reach their full potential.
Main duties of the job
To provide effective family centred nursing care to patients and their families. Ensure that evidence-based practice is always performed, taking responsibility for updating own knowledge and skill in line with Trust policies and procedures and NMC Code.
For newly qualified band 5 nurses, it will be an important step in consolidating practice and completing all relevant clinical competencies, receiving adequate support form colleagues
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Communication
Essential criteria
1. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
2. Ability to attend ward-based meetings relating to patients and follow up recommendations made.
3. Effectively communicate with other members of the MDT, senior staff, colleagues as well as patients and their families.
Personal and people development
Essential criteria
4. Ability to view problems objectively and find solutions
5. Ability to reflect on previous learning experience
6. Show willingness to actively participate in own professional development and that of other staff and patients on the ward.
7. Knowledge and appreciation of significance in evidence-based practice
8. Understanding of professional accountability issues and scope of professional practice
Knowledge
Essential criteria
9. Knowledge of resource management
10. Knowledge in education process of patients, families, students, and other registered and non-registered staff
11. Knowledge and experience of providing nursing care for children within an acute paediatric setting
12. Awareness of working with children and their families within a multi-cultural environment
13. Previous involvement in or knowledge of child protection process & procedures
Qualifications
Essential criteria
14. RSCN/RN Child
15. Assessing and mentoring qualification
Other
Essential criteria
16. Commitment to full internal rotation
17. Demonstrates awareness of the Health & Safety at Work Act within the clinical environment
18. Practice and always comply with Trust and local policies and Guidelines as well as the NMC Code.