Have you got experience with children and hold an NNEB, Associate Practitioner certificate or NVQ level 3 equivalent qualification?
Are you looking for a new challenge?
Come and join our team at Basildon Hospital Paediatrics as a Band 4 Associate Practitioner.
The Band 4 Associate Practitioner is an exciting role. You will be taught vital skills such as:
* care of a tracheostomy tube
* venipuncture
* cannulation
* NG feeding
* tube placement
* and much more
You will work alongside the multi-disciplinary team in delivering high standards of care to children and young people who present with medical and complex needs.
Please be aware this role may close early due to number of applications.
No VISA sponsorship available for this role.
If successful, you will support and, following training assessment, plan, implement and evaluate care for specified children and young people in hospital, according to their individual needs and the care plan, ensuring full documentation.
You will work flexibly across the children's unit to create a caring and safe environment for children, young people and their families.
You will learn how to assess and recognise clinical deterioration in patients and report to the nurse or doctor in charge of their care by monitoring and recording the patient’s condition, following teaching and assessment of competence.
Provide and deliver care with skills applicable to our patient case load.
Work alongside the multi-disciplinary team delivering high standards of specific care, maintaining cleanliness and asepsis, meeting nutritional needs of patients, and undertaking a range of nursing care activities identified as appropriate by senior nursing staff within a defined competency framework.
Independently perform invasive and non‑invasive minor procedures at an advanced level.
You will provide holistic, child and family centred care.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation, we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff by offering more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Are you looking for an exciting Associate Practitioner role within Paediatrics using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you?
For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.
We look forward to your application.
This advert closes on Monday 11 May 2026.
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