Job overview
Our Children’s Nursing team is expanding under the leadership of the Director of Nursing for Child Health, ensuring high-quality care for children and young people across the Trust. You will be supported by Clinical Nurse Educators, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners, Quality Managers, and a friendly multidisciplinary team, alongside corporate training and development opportunities. We offer in-house leadership programmes and strong links with universities to support your academic and career progression.
We are committed to creating a positive working environment, guided by our PRIDE values: Passion, Responsibility, Innovation, Drive, and Empowerment. As part of our forward-thinking approach, we are involved in national programmes such as the Virginia Mason Institute Programme and Vanguard initiatives to transform patient care.
We are inviting applications for a Band 6 Children’s Sister position on Tropical Lagoon Ward. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, work effectively within a multidisciplinary team, and demonstrate a positive approach to service development. If you are motivated, compassionate, and committed, we encourage you to apply. Professional development is actively supported.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will act as a role model and provide leadership in the clinical area and will be responsible for overseeing assessment of care needs of patients, planning programmes of care, implementation and evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision. Responsible in education and supervision of staff as coordinated with the Children’s PDN. To demonstrate advanced clinical specialist skills in order to provide the highest standard of individualised evidence based patient centred care while supervising the work of others. To expect to take charge on each shift and to supervise and co-ordinate other staffs as appropriate develops self and others professionally.
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 346,000 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)
2. Teaching & assessing qualification
SKILLS/ ABILITIES
Desirable criteria
3. PILS / EPLS / APLS
4. Member of external national forums e.g. RCN children’s forums.
EXPERIENCE/ KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
5. Experienced as Senior Band 5 Nurse – has experienced of taking charge on shift of the ward
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.