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Staff Nurse - Paediatrics (Children's Hub)
The closing date is 13 October 2025
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Children's registered nurse to join Children's Services at the Friarage Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to work within the well-established Children's Hub team. The Children's Hub is an integrated paediatric service providing care for children admitted to inpatient day case services, children's out-patient services and children within a community setting.
There is an expectation, at times of service need, that you may be required to work in other children's services across the Trust that are based at James Cook hospital in Middlesborough.
As a member of the Children's Hub nursing team, you will be part of a forward thinking, friendly team and will be supported to develop professionally. The successful candidate will need to be motivated, have strong communication and organisational skills, be able to work as part of a team as well as having the skills to work autonomously and effectively prioritise their workload.
As a member of the Children's Hub team you will provide high quality, evidence based holistic care to children with acute and chronic health needs, within their own homes or a community setting such as respite care centre or an educational setting. Care for children will also be provided across the acute inpatient and outpatient setting.
Main duties of the job
In this post you will provide highly skilled, quality clinical and non-clinical care, which is outcome focused, to support children and young people and their families, to enable them to live, participate and achieve in all aspects of life, e.g. at home and within their community.
The workload is varied and interesting with an opportunity to develop further knowledge and skills. A variety of skills including wound care, venepuncture, complex airway management, central line care, administration of IV, I/M, S/C treatment, skin prick testing, palliative care, health promotion and much more. Candidates will be supported with an induction period.
The successful candidate must be able to work flexibly between the hours of 8am and 6pm, Monday to Friday.
The role involves teaching parents/carers/children/young people, and other health professionals as required and supporting pre and post registered nursing students.
This role requires an experienced clinician with team working and communication skills, who can deliver effective evidence-based care to a defined demographic population with diverse health care and social needs.
The successful candidate needs to be prepared to adapt to the changing needs of the Trust and the community models of care as they arise.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our staff in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
* Your Leadership Impact
* Leading Your Team to Success
* Service Improvement for Beginners
* Developing your Service Improvement Skills
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
* Explore leadership within the NHSo Promote Trust values and behaviour
* Develop your leadership effectiveness and skill
* Equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* Current NMC registration (child subpart)
* Recognisable teaching qualification
Knowledge and Skills
* Ability to work within the boundaries of the NMC professional Code of Conduct.
* An understanding of government and Trust documents/policies in relation to Children's Nursing.
* A team player able to work well with others and demonstrate commitment to team objectives.
* Awareness of quality and audit indicators
Personal Attributes
* Commitment to the needs of the service including a flexible and adaptable approach in the work environment/work practices.
* Caring and compassionate attitude to patients and colleagues.
Experience
* Experience of working within an acute or community setting.
* Evidence of multi-disciplinary working.
* Evidence of participation in audit/service improvement
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum (pro rata)
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