Job overview
The Paediatric Critical Care Unit is an indispensable part of the Childrens service and strategy, ensuring that local children can be treated and cared for in their local hospital. It is also a tertiary referral centre accepting admissions from north east London and further afield to support the increasing demand for Paediatric critical care.
It is our aim to increase our outstanding, dynamic team by recruiting experienced, highly motivated children’s nurses with intensive care skills, who have experience of caring for critically ill children.
As a Band 6, you will need to have previous experience of working within Paediatric Intensive Care and to have completed your intensive care training. Your main responsibility will be the clinical care of critically ill children; whilst allowing you the opportunity to share your knowledge, experience and skills. This position will also give you the chance to develop your managerial skills.
You will need to thrive on working in a dynamic environment; willing to teach junior staff; demonstrate self-motivation and work well in a team. You should demonstrate a commitment to your own professional practice, as well as delivering high quality holistic care, with an emphasis on working in partnership with the children and their families.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical leadership to a designated nursing team ensuring the delivery of the highest standard of individualised family centred care to children and their families in conjunction with the interdisciplinary team.
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. RSCN/RN Child with current registration
2. Paediatric Intensive Care Course or equivalent
3. Preparation for mentorship course or equivalent
4. Intravenous accreditation
Desirable criteria
5. Leadership course/ development programme
6. Educated to degree level or working towards it
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Experience of working at Band 5 level with experience working in a critical care setting
8. Experience following completion of the Paediatric Intensive Care Course
Skills
Essential criteria
9. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
10. Effective interpersonal skills
11. Excellent communication skills with people on complex matters/issues
12. Ability to deal with difficult situations
13. Excellent organisational skills
14. Displays professional integrity and credibility
15. Adaptable and able to deal with changing workloads