Job summary
Children's Emergency Department, Day Services and Community Services - Open Day.
Wednesday 18th September
5pm-8pm
Childrens ward, Lister Hospital, Stevenage, SG1 4AB
Are you a Registered Children's Nurse, looking for a new opportunity? Or are you looking to secure your first role after qualifying as a Registered Children's Nurse?
If so, East and North Herts NHS Trust may have the opportunity you have been looking for! We currently have nursing opportunities available across our children's services.
We are looking for team members who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Children's ED Our brand-new children's emergency department is purpose built and includes 2 paediatric resuscitation bays, 6 major spaces, and an ENP service co-located within the emergency department, seeing minor illness and injury, as well as a 10 bedded children's assessment and decision unit. We also have our children's 20-bedded acute ward, a day services unit and extensive children's community services.
Community
Our Childrens Community teams consist of various Specialist teams, including Diabetes, Epilepsy, ADHD, Special schools, Children's Community Nurses, Chronic fatigue ,Special Needs health Visitors, and Roald Dahl Nurses.
Please apply online to register your interest.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
Our rotational package for newly qualified nurses can be tailored to your needs and will encompass a diverse range of nursing skills and environments to nurture and develop your nursing practice.
Your personal and professional development is important to us - we offer preceptorship, 1:1 support and teaching, peer support, networking, and outstanding leadership development programme to support all nurses promoting a culture of inclusion, innovation, and compassion
We work with you to help you grow in your role and take your career in the direction you want to go. If you want to move up the ladder, we'll support you. If you just want to stay in your role, that's fine 'll help you be the best you can be.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
1. The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
2. New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
3. Hertford County, Hertford
4. Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
5. RSCN/RN Child with current NMC registration
Previous Experience
Essential
6. Experience and evidence of managing patient care.
7. Ability to prioritise and organise own work load
8. Ability to use initiative, whilst demonstrating an awareness of own limits
Desirable
9. Previous experience of working with children and young people
Skills
Essential
10. Good verbal and written communication skills
11. Competency in basic nursing skills
12. Evidence of practical application of Trust and national documentation standards
13. IT skills
Desirable
14. Ability to negotiate
Knowledge
Essential
15. Contemporaneous theoretical and practical knowledge of acute/chronic Paediatric care and national policies
16. Up to date knowledge of: 1. NMC Code of Professional Conduct 2. Safeguarding Children processes 3. Hand hygiene and Care bundles 4. Quality Indicators 5. Health and safety awareness 6. Clinical Governance and quality issues 7. Risk management
Other Requirements
Essential
17. Value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together
18. Create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas
19. Committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose