Job overview
We are seeking motivated, dynamic experienced children’s nurses looking for their next challenge.
Are you a positive role model, with a good range of clinical skills in an acute environment? Would you like to develop your clinical, managerial and teaching skills in a busy diverse environment, whilst being well supported by a large friendly team? You might be a band 5 thinking about making your next career move or already working as a band 6 and looking for a change of environment. If you have completed the EPALS course and have experience on acute paediatric ward.
Main duties of the job
Our family centred, 54 bedded acute general paediatric unit has a progressive forward thinking multi-disciplinary team, caring for children and families with a wide range of conditions including general medicine & surgery, oncology, ENT, ophthalmology, maxillo-facial, orthopaedic, and those requiring high dependency nursing care.
Working for our organisation
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To deputise and support the ward manager in achieving the Directorate’s aims and objectives. To take charge regularly of the clinical area in the absence of the ward manager.
To take responsibility for the assessments of the care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of care without supervision and to supervise and teach other nursing and non-nursing staff, acting as a clinical role model.
OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSE OF THE POST:
Clinical responsibilities
1. To be responsible for assessing and developing individual programmes of care in conjunction with the ward team.
2. To assist in setting standards, objectives and priorities in span of care.
3. To be responsible for implementing and evaluating nursing care programmes and ensuring a high standard of service for patients and their families or carers
4. Working closely with the ward manager, develop and implement clinical audit and effective programmes for all staff working in the department/ward.
Managerial responsibilities
5. To take charge regularly in the absence of the person with continuing responsibility and participate in the Directorate’s bleep holder rota and undertake the responsibilities associated with this role.
6. To provide supervision, mentorship and support to nursing staff working within the department/ward.
7. To participate in planning the duty rota maintaining a flexible approach to ensure ward cover.
8. To assist the department/ward manager in department budgeting and to be economic in the use of ward stocks and clinical requisitions, avoiding waste wherever possible.
9. To investigate patient complains, accident and incident reporting and take corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
10. Monitoring sickness absence levels.
11. To participate in selection and interviewing of staff at Band 5 and below.
12. To be actively involved in promoting good communication channels across the multi-disciplinary team.
Education, training and development
13. To ensure the procedures for extending the role of the nurse and scope of professional practice are implemented and revised regularly.
14. To contribute to the ward learning environment through teaching and by example.
15. To act as mentor to the nurses with particular attention to monitoring and continuous assessment of students, creating an atmosphere conductive to learning for all staff.
16. To implement department/ward teaching programmes, applying appropriate research finds and assist in the planning of mandatory and other educational and training needs and records.
17. To undertake appropriate activities to update clinical knowledge and skills.
Professional and Legal responsibilities
18. To be conversant with policies and procedures relating to Fire and Health and Safety.
19. To report all accidents and complaints in accordance with agreed policies and assist in investigations of complaints and accidents as required.
20. To uphold the principles of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
21. To be conversant with department/ward’s Policies and Procedures.
Care and Compassion
The post holder must be able to actively demonstrate and proactively deliver effective and personal care, which is safe for the patients, in a calm and compassionate manner to every patient, every time. This should be at the core of all planning which actively involves the patient and where appropriate, their relatives /carers. With the ability to escalate areas of interprofessional and multiagency care concerns to the ward manager, Matron or Deputy/Chief Nurse in a timely manner.
NB: This job may involve the manual handling of heavy loads, for which training will be given. If there is any reason why you should not do this, it is your responsibility to inform your manager immediately.
Person specification
qualifications
Essential criteria
22. Paediatric nursing degree/diploma
23. Teaching and mentor ship qualification
Desirable criteria
24. Managing a team
skills
Essential criteria
25. ability to prioritise and organise workload across the department
26. EPALS
personal attributes
Essential criteria
27. can adopt a leadership style
Desirable criteria
28. proven ability to communicate effectively
continued professional develop
Essential criteria
29. ability to deliver the care in line with the trust vision
Desirable criteria
30. years of experience as a band 5
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.