Staff Nurse - Thomas Cook Children’s Critical Care Centre
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King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in South East London is a large teaching hospital at the forefront of academic and nursing excellence. At the heart of King’s is the Variety Children’s Hospital (VCH) offering a wide range of services and specialities for children and young people at local, regional and international level. Within the VCH is a 16‑bed Children’s Critical Care Centre providing both high dependency (HDU) and intensive care management.
Working in the Children’s Critical Care Centre will provide you with the opportunity to care for intensive care and high‑dependency patients admitted under a variety of specialties:
* Neurosurgery
* Trauma
* General medicine and surgery
* Liver disease and liver transplantation
* Small bowel transplantation
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Support and development opportunities are vital in our philosophy of providing the best care to our patients and valuing our staff. Development opportunities are actively encouraged and you will be supported in gaining relevant qualifications. Opportunities include the Paediatric Intensive Care (PICU) course, Paediatric Acute Nursing in Critical Care (HDU) course and Student Assessment training.
We boast a fantastic education team – two Practice Development Nurses and a Clinical Facilitator – who will help support you in training and working on shift. They, with senior nurses and other colleagues, will help in supporting you via a comprehensive development programme including local competencies and a clear career pathway.
The following post offers challenging opportunities for dynamic and highly motivated children’s nurses within the Children’s Critical Care Centre.
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. Our trust‑wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person‑centred, digitally‑enabled and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Laura Abell
Job title: Matron
Email address: labell@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0203 299 3664
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full‑time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
Industries
* Hospitals and Health Care
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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