Job summary
Employer heading
Staff Nurse - Paediatrics
NHS AfC: Band 5
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
**PLEASE NOTE, THIS ROLE IS FOR THE PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT ONLY**
We have a great opportunity for an experienced staff nurse or newly qualified nurse to join our fantastic Paediatric Emergency Department team. We have exciting times ahead with our planned move to the new Midland Metropolitan Hospital, and we are looking forward to being able to push our paediatric service forward.
You will be expected to look after patients between 0-18yrs old, having a good understanding around quality and safety. You will be expected to provide emergency care in a resuscitation situation, escalating concerns in order to provide a high standard of patient care.
You will work alongside the senior nurse supporting with timely treatments and patient transfers adhering to trust policies and guidelines.
From November 2024, our Paediatric Emergency Department will be based at our brand new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital.
We Welcome the following :
Experienced senior or junior Paediatric nurses
Newly qualified Nurses
Qualified Nurses
RN with evidence of Paediatric competencies or excessive acute Paediatric experience
Main duties of the job
As a member of our team you will be joining a culture where great importance is placed on the Fundamentals of care and where Multi-Disciplinary team working and communication is at the heart of our focused care. As a children’s nurse you are the best person to improve outcomes for children and families through ambition, respect and compassion.
Your job will entail:
- putting learnt models of care into practice, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care.
- Managing a defined group of patients- participating in all aspects of care from initial contact/admission through to discharge, including transferring from one environment to another and administering medication
- Compliance with the NMC code of conduct and practice.
- Keeping up to date with new developments in nursing and speciality specific information.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person specification for full details of what this role entails and essential criteria.
**PLEASE NOTE, THIS ROLE IS FOR THE PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT ONLY**
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN (Child) with current NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Teaching/assessing qualification
- Speciality specific qualifications
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant clinical experience, including that as a student or unqualified nurse
Desirable criteria
- Relevant clinical experience since registration Relevant voluntary experience
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to safely carry out manual handling of patients and equipment and stores as per Trust policy
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to calculate drug dosages
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Timmins
- Job title
- Matron – Paediatric Emergency department
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07967 891933
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