We need experienced Band 5 Paediatric Nurses for one of the largest NHS trusts in the region. The Trust is the regional specialist care provider for southwest London, Surrey, and beyond. The trust provides a high-quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading-edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.
Job Description:
1. Provide excellent nursing care, supervise and mentor Student Nurses and Health Care Assistants, act as an advocate for children and family, and participate in the management of wards.
Responsibilities:
2. Complete Competencies: Ensure high standards of clinical care through relevant competency completion and appraisal.
3. Patient Care: Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care using research findings; maintain personal contact with patients, ensuring dignity and privacy.
4. Leadership and Management: Provide ward leadership, manage the ward without senior staff, and ensure safe staffing levels and adherence to policies.
5. Effective Communication: Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills with the multidisciplinary team and patients, ensuring clarity and understanding.
6. Nursing Procedures and Medication Management: Follow healthcare policies for nursing procedures, store, check, and administer drugs according to Trust Policy and NMC Standards.
7. Accurate Records and Confidentiality: Maintain timely and accurate nursing records, ensuring confidentiality is respected.
8. Safe Environment: Maintain a clean and safe environment, follow Health and Safety, Clinical Risk, and Infection Control policies, and manage stock levels effectively.
9. Inter-departmental Coordination: Coordinate admissions and discharges, communicate with other wards and departments, participate in meetings, audits, and research projects, and handle patient valuables according to Trust policies.
Skills:
10. Registered nurse for children
11. Computer literate
12. Experience in assessment, planning, and evaluation of patient care
13. Ability to work with and mentor junior staff
14. Awareness of professional responsibilities
15. Understanding of normal child development
Desirable:
16. IV administration course
17. Experience of undertaking a small research project
18. Understanding of the effects of hospital admission on a child and the family
To apply for this role, please reply with your updated CV and the job reference number - BS//RCN1.