Job overview
Children’s Nurse, Band 6
Children’s Day Case Unit
The Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital [RACH] is located on the Royal Sussex County Hospital site in Brighton. In June 2007 RACH opened on the current site in its brand new state of the art facility. It has won an international design award and continues with offering pioneering children’s care.
The RACH has a long history of progressive and innovative Children’s care embracing medicine, nursing and related professions, children’s nurse training and research. It is one is of the leading children’s centre’s on the South Coast and has a 24 hour dedicated children’s emergency department. RACH works closely with the neonatal service providing support and services for neonates such as surgery.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dedicated team player to join our dynamic paediatric departments.
Our Day Case Ward is a busy unit which cares for children having surgery or investigations and treatment of medical conditions from a wide range of specialties.
This post offers an excellent learning opportunity for both new and experienced Children’s Nurses.
We are looking for a committed, adaptable, hard working Children’s Nurse with good interpersonal and communication skills.
For an informal discussion or visit please contact Ruth de mello.
Main duties of the job
1. Liaise effectively with colleagues, the multi-disciplinary team, the Sister and other departments to allow the timely management of patient throughput.
2. Following appropriate training, take part in the children’s services nursing bleep-holder rota with the support of the senior nurse ‘on call’.
3. Contributes to the recruitment and retention strategy for Children’s Services, assisting the Ward Manager with interviewing.
4. To honour the core values established by the organisation in respect to how you should relate to other staff, volunteers, patients and the population which you serve.
5. Work with the other deputy sister/charge nurse and ward Manager to complete appraisals and the development of staff.
6. The post holder will continue to develop their own knowledge and skills through locally agreed personal development plans and facilitates the development of others.
The post holder will participate in change management and clinical audit within own area of work, and work in partnership with other agencies.
Working for our organisation
At UHSussex (UHSx), diversity is our strength, & we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First. Your uniqueness & experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, & can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) & a Veteran Aware Trust.
We treat our patients & staff with the same compassion & empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above & beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our candidate information pack & wellbeing programme, for staff which is extensive & designed to support you when you need it, including where possible, flexible working to support work life balance - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.
As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching & training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us & throughout your career we will help you to grow & develop. We hope that in choosing UHSx you are choosing a long & happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make & feel valued for all that you do.
We look forward to receiving your application & the start of your journey with UHSx.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
7. Maintain an age and development appropriate environment that promotes safety, security and optimal health for the child and the family.
8. Facilitate and support the link worker role and support the development of other staff to undertake a link nurse role as designated by the Sister.
9. Lead and delegate mandatory and other audit as required by the Trust
10. Lead Unit meetings and deputise for Sister in their absence.
11. Facilitate the cascading of information from other sources in the absence of the Ward Manager
12. Awareness of organisational structure and the function of the Directorate within the organisation.
13. Participation in and promote others participation in Trust wide forums as designated by the Sister
14. Prioritise care and delegate duties to others as appropriate ensuring they are supervised and mentored taking into account knowledge, skills and ability of others.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
15. Registered Children's Nurse
16. 3 years post qualification
17. Assessor/sign off assessor
Desirable criteria
18. Experience of working within an acute paediatric setting
19. Experience of managing a ward/unit
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Essential criteria
20. Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
21. Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
Important information for applicants:
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