Job overview
Barts Health is one of the largest acute and community children’s practices in the UK. We recognise the growing needs of the children from the vibrant part of East London and committed to delivering excellence in specialist treatment, research, education, and care for children. We have a large number of acute and specialist services.
We are looking to recruit a Practice Development Nurse to join our team, to deliver education and support to our Paediatric Critical Care nurses working within our trust. You need to have a strong ability for multidisciplinary working, excellent leadership qualities, as well as the organisational and communication skills to contribute to the future development of the service.
The role will allow you to develop your managerial responsibilities as well as provide clinical care, support junior staff and influence the future of Paediatric Critical Care services at Barts Health.
You will be required to have Paediatric registration, the Paediatric Critical Care course, mentorship/teaching and assessing modules and have had experience at band 6. You will need to have at least three years post registration experience in Paediatric Critical Care.
Main duties of the job
We are a 10 bedded Paediatric Critical Care Unit, based within a busy teaching hospital in North East London. We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Paediatric Critical Care Practice Development nurse, who is keen to enhance the skills and confidence of our continually developing team. This should be someone who is able to create an environment for staff development that is supportive and encourages staff education, through a process of work-based competencies, whilst providing continuing support to all bands of clinical staff in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team. Through a process of support/supervision enables ward staff/teams to assess, prescribe/develop, implement and evaluate standards/programmes of care, providing advice and support to develop methods to evaluate care delivered where required. The post holder will ensure that agreed standards are followed to provide a safe environment for both children and their families. To ensure that effective communication exists between themselves, nursing colleagues, medical staff, multidisciplinary teams, patients and/or their relatives, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate. The post holder will deliver educational programs in relation to Clinical Practice and Professional Development to support service delivery as well as carrying out other managerial duties as required by the senior nurse/matron and commensurate with the level of thepost.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. RSCN / RN Child with current NMC registration
2. Educated to degree level or working towards Paediatric Intensive Care Course/415
3. Preparation for Mentorship course or equivalent
4. Evidence of continued professional development APLS/EPALS
Desirable criteria
5. Leadership course / development programme
Knowledge
Essential criteria
6. Communicates in a manner that is consistent with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.
7. Communicates with people in a form and manner that:Is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating
8. Is appropriate to the purpose of the communication and the context in which it is taking place
9. Encourages the effective participation of all involved
10. Is proactive in seeking out different styles and methods of communicating to assist longer term needs and aims
11. Provides feedback to other workers on their communication at appropriate times
12. Takes a proactive role in producing accurate and complete records of communication consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
Desirable criteria
13. Recognises and reflects on barriers to effective communication and modifies communication in response