Main area Childrens Nurse Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (shifts - days and nights) Job ref 331-L18890825
Site Royal Lancaster Infirmary Town Lancaster Salary £31,049 - £37,796 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/09/2025 23:59
''Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work''
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.
Job overview
This is your opportunity to help shape the future for Children attending the Emergency Department.
Are you ambitious and a focused person already working in an acute setting?
Are you looking for a development opportunity?
This is your opportunity to help shape the future for Children attending the Emergency Department.
Main duties of the job
You must be highly motivated and willing to take on new challenges, in paediatric emergency care.
You must be willing to participate in health promotion to care for the children of our community.
Have continuing responsibility for the delivery of care needs and maintenance of Clinical Standards on the ward/dept.
Support to all grades of staff, planning and directing activities to provide the optimal standard of care.
Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based, holistic family centred care with the Multi-disciplinary team to children and young people.
To act as an advocate on behalf of children and their families.
Ensure that the ward/dept. is clean and provides a safe environment for children, parents and staff.
The aim of this post is to gain competences, knowledge, skills and experience in ED to progress to leadership level.
You must be highly motivated and willing to take on new challenges, in paediatric emergency care.
Working for our organisation
We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community health care premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/
Person specification
Education and Qualification
* Registered Nurse - Child
* Specialist training including short courses essential to the role
* Safeguarding level 3
* APLS
Experience
* Post registration experience in acute setting
* Ability to recognise a sick child
* Able to work in MDT
* Evidence of teaching and developing staff
Skills
* Decision making
* Ability to manage a wide variety of patient conditions
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The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities where ever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be EffortlesslyInclusive .
The trust operates a No Smoking Policy.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview.
We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.
The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert
If the post is subject to Disclosure & Barring Service checking, (formally CRB) a charge of £49.50 for Enhanced and £21.50 for Standard clearance and additional to this a £4.90 administration fee will be made to the successful candidate(s). This currently only applies to roles Band 6 and above and Medical & Dental posts.
Anyone newly appointed to the trust under the Agenda For Change contract, will be subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the role and working environment.
We have introduced a new system called Pre-Onboarding, specifically to support you right the way through to your first few months in your new role with us atUHMB. This bespoke site has lots of useful information to help you settle into your new roleincluding: what to expect from the recruitment clearances process, where to get a uniform, when you'll get paid etc. As well as information on a number of our services i.e. Infection Prevention, Anti-fraud, Inclusion and Diversity, Care Certificates and much more. To access click on this linkhttps://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/uhmbt-pre-onboarding .
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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