Job overview
Our busy Children’s Department operates across two sites: Queen’s Hospital, Romford and King George’s Hospital, Ilford. We provide a full range of general medical and surgical services for children and young people. Facilities include two inpatient wards (one with a co-located 4-bedded HDU), two Children and Young People’s Assessment Units (CYPAU at QH and Dahlia at KGH), a day unit with POSCU and hematology services, outpatient departments with a GP hot clinic, Clinical Nurse Specialists and a Children’s Community Nursing team.
We also have a well-established 32-cot Level 2 NICU with community and outreach teams supporting babies on discharge. Children’s Emergency Departments are based on both sites, with combined attendances exceeding 62,000 per year, making us one of the busiest services nationally.
Our expanding Children’s Nursing team is led by the Director of Nursing for Child Health. Staff are supported by Clinical Nurse Educators, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners, Quality Managers and a strong multidisciplinary team. We offer excellent learning and development opportunities, including in-house leadership programmes and academic pathways in partnership with universities.
We are proud to invest in our staff and live our PRIDE values: Passion, Responsibility, Innovation, Drive and Empowerment. The Trust is also at the forefront of NHS transformation as part of the Virginia Mason Institute Programme and a national Vanguard site
Main duties of the job
To be a safe and effective practitioner able to provide high quality care to patients and support to relatives. To work within the multi-disciplinary team to provide continuing care to a group of patients from admission to discharge in the department.
To participate in the teaching and supervision of junior staff and student learners as required. To maintain own personal development with support.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. RSCN, RN (Child Branch) qualification and registration with NMC
Desirable criteria
2. PILS trained.
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
3. Able to work well under pressure, demonstrating a calm and resilient approach
Desirable criteria
4. Member of external national forums e.g. RCN children’s forums.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
5. Excellent collaborative team leader and player. Excellent role model and ambassador both within and outside the Trust for Children’s Nursing
Experience/Knoweldge
Desirable criteria
6. Experience working in a paediatric unit
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.