Our Children’s team provides acute care across a range of clinical specialties including but not limited to: oncology, haematology, respiratory, diabetes, endocrine, neurology, and day surgery. We also provide a children’s community nursing team.
At QH, we have 30 acute inpatient beds on Tropical Lagoon which includes 4 HDU level 2 beds. We have a children’s complex discharge coordinator to support the most effective flow across our children’s and neonatal areas and community services, also working with our tertiary hospitals to facilitate repatriating children back to QH and therefore closer to home.
We have practice educators across all of children’s services to provide education to all our staff in the clinical and classroom setting. Our Children’s and Young People’s Assessment Unit (CYPAU) at QH is located next to the Children’s Emergency Department. It is a 9-bedded 24hr facility used for the assessment and treatment of children who require urgent medical care, alongside PELC referrals and 4 CCDU (Children’s Clinical Decision Unit) chairs. Dahlia Ward is an 8-bedded unit at King George’s hospital which takes lower acuity patients combined with 4 CCDU chairs.
The post holder will act as a role model and provide leadership in the clinical area and will be responsible for overseeing the assessment of care needs of children and young people, planning programmes of care, implementation, and evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision. Responsible for the education and supervision of staff as coordinated with the Children’s Clinical Nurse Educator.
To demonstrate advanced clinical specialist skills in order to provide the highest standard of individualised evidence-based patient-centred care while supervising the work of others. To expect to take charge on each shift and to supervise and co-ordinate other staff as appropriate, developing self and others professionally.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification. The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period. Applications should be made online; however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form, or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Arif Nadeem, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5938.
Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
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