Job overview
We are recruiting for a Registered Children's Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Our newly designed Children’s Emergency Department is purpose-built to provide exceptional care, featuring 2 paediatric resuscitation bays, 6 major treatment spaces, and a 10-bed Children’s Assessment and Decision Unit. In addition, we have a 20-bed acute children’s ward, a dedicated day services unit, and a wide range of community-based children’s services.
We are committed to supporting your professional growth and development, tailoring opportunities to help you advance your career in the direction you choose. Whether you want to progress or stay in your current role, we’ll work with you to help you become the best healthcare professional you can be.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
You will provide comprehensive care for a designated group of patients within the unit by identifying, assessing, planning, implementing, and regularly evaluating their needs in collaboration with the child and their family.
The person successful in this role will deliver the highest quality of care that addresses the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of each child and their family, supporting their journey toward optimal health.
The post holder will respect and honour the customs, values, and spiritual beliefs of children and their families at all times.
You will foster a supportive environment that meets the psychosocial and developmental needs of children and young people, including access to play, recreational activities, and educational resources. You will ensure tailored support is available for those with special needs.
The successful candidate will maintain a courteous and helpful demeanour toward all patients and visitors within the ward or department.
You will also commit to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people at all times.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
* 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
* Registered Nurse on part 1, part 2 or part 12 of the NMC register
* Commitment to lifelong learning
* Evidence of further education, training and on-going learning
* Ability to product updated personal professional portfolio
Desirable criteria
* Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
* Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification
Skills
Essential criteria
* Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
* Ability to work within a team
* Good self-awareness
* Good organisational skills
* Ability to priorities and organise workload
Desirable criteria
* Flexibility around working hours
* Computer literacy
* Venepuncture
* Cannulation
Other requirements
Essential criteria
* Awareness of strategies for maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors
* Evidence of commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion for everyone
* Evidence of commitment to the Trust’s values and the ability to demonstrate them at all times
* Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
* Evidence of commitment to the Trust’s values and the ability to demonstrate them at all times
* Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion nonsupervisory posts
* Role model our Trust values every day
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of appropriate specialist nursing care requirements
* Resource management awareness
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We 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.
Respect
We 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.
Improve
We are 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.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.