Staff Nurse - Paediatric Critical Care

Job overview

We are currently looking to recruit into vacancy in our Children’s Paediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU)

Within Nottingham Children's Hospital (NCH) we house a 14 bedded PCCU with both intensive care and high dependency beds. We care for children under a wide range of specialities , working closely alongside the Children’s Medical Emergency Transport service for the East Midlands region.

PCCU provides an essential service for Neurology/Neurosurgical; Spinal/Orthopaedic; Oncology/Haematology; Respiratory; General Surgery and Rheumatology as well as paediatric renal services for the region. This allows staff on the unit to be actively involved with kidney transplants and hemofiltration.

We are supported by the PCCU Education Team and have a well-established foundation programme for those nurses who want to join us as newly qualified nurses.

Nottingham Children's Hospital is proud of our investment in our nursing staff and you will have an opportunity to witness this first hand when you meet our practice development team.

For those staff that are always looking for the next challenge there is the option of using our internal transfer window system to move to another area at a later date to gain further skills and experience.

If you are seeking a position elsewhere at NCH then please do still enquire as our vacancies may not be limited to this pathway.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert

We are happy to accept applications from both experienced and newly qualified children's nurses as well as experienced adult registered nurses that can demonstrate experience in paediatric settings. To be considered you must be willing to undertake further children's specific training and development packages.

*Pre-Pin Nurses must be qualified by Autumn 2025, to be eligible to apply*

This is a really exciting time to join NCH as we became the first Children’s Hospital in Europe to achieve ANCC pathway to excellence accreditation in 2020.

This makes NCH a really special place to work, not only does this show that we provide excellent care to patients and family’s it is also recognition that we have fantastic teams, leadership at all levels and a huge array of development opportunity’s.

As a registered nurse at Nottingham Children's Hospital you will be expected to maintain a high standard of clinical work when carrying out nursing procedures.

You will motivate colleagues, champion children’s and family’s safety and dignity and drive continuous improvement.

Nottingham Children's Hospital will support you in your role and provide the relevant education, training and support for you to deliver high quality care.

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Nottingham Children’s Hospital is set within the vibrant city of Nottingham known for its many historical sites and lively music scene. The children’s hospital is housed within the Queens medical centre campus and has 116 inpatient beds across 8 inpatient wards covering all specialities, with many of our specialities being regional centres as well as two neonatal intensive care units -one based at our City hospital campus.

We have an innovative Preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff during their crucial transition period from student nurse to registered nurse as well bespoke support for those joining our teams.

Our staff are proud to work at Nottingham Children's Hospital and all embrace the TEAM NUH ethos which we would love you to be part of.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached detailed job description and person specification attachments, for further information relating to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Current level one NMC registration/Pre-pin due to qualify.

• Posession of mentor course or willingness to complete

Experience

• Experience of delivering nursing care to a group of patients
• Supervision of non registered staff and students

• Demonstarte evidence of a link role or involvement of project work

Communication skills

• Demonstrates effective written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrates basic IT skills
• Awareness of own limitations and able to cummincate these

• Demonstration of team working

Analytical and Judegement

• Ability to assess plan deliver and prioritise care
• Demonstrate an undertsanding of the staff nurse role

• Demonstarte knowledge of current NHS issues

Physical skills

• Able to undertake manual handling and use medical equipment

• Evidence of moving and handling training

Other

• Flexible and adaptable
• Enthusiastic and well motivated

• Understanding of the rolve of advocacy