Paediatric Staff Nurse - Rotational

Job overview

We are hosting a Paediatric Nursing Interview Day on Thursday 13th March 2025, 11.30 - 18.00 at the Jan Cutting Centre. This is applicable for those who are soon to qualify, newly qualified or seeking your next opportunity within Paediatric nursing!

This Band 5 rotational post will include Woodcock Ward, Wildgoose Ward, The Children's Assessment Unit and the Children's High Dependency unit. This is a rotational post comes with great learning and training opportunities.

The unit consists of Woodcock ward, which is a 14 bedded ward caring for children and babies of all specialities from the ages 0 -10years and works closely with PLYM theatres.

Wildgoose Ward is a 13 bedded ward caring for Children over the age of 10 covering all specialities and all oncology.

The Children's Assessment unit sees all emergency admissions from General practice as well as some medical cases from the emergency department.

The Children’s High Dependency Unit accepts acute and planned admissions. The unit consists of four beds and undertakes major orthopaedic, ENT and complex surgery as well as emergency medicine. The unit provides a high level of high dependency care including non-invasive ventilation and invasive stabilisation ventilation.

If you are interested in attending this recruitment event, you must apply in order for us to allocate you a place.

Main duties of the job

• Providing and delivering a high standard of nursing care by initiating and co-coordinating the assessment, planning, and evaluating of individual patients needs based on evidence.
• Reporting and documenting any relevant nursing/patient needs, communicating changes with other health care professionals in the multi-disciplinary team with ongoing responsibility for patient care as they occur
• Promoting and delivering health education within the clinical area and advice patient, family, and others in health promotion issues
• Engage; interact with carers/family encouraging them to be actively involved in patient’s care, planning as outlined in the unit philosophy
• Demonstrating and undertaking evidence-based practice playing an active part in the introduction of this evidence to improve patient centred car

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

Working for our organisation

The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure.

We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams.

It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Providing and delivering a high standard of nursing care by initiating and co-coordinating the assessment, planning, and evaluating of individual patients needs based on evidence.
• Reporting and documenting any relevant nursing/patient needs, communicating changes with other health care professionals in the multi-disciplinary team with ongoing responsibility for patient care as they occur
• Promoting and delivering health education within the clinical area and advice patient, family, and others in health promotion issues
• Engage; interact with carers/family encouraging them to be actively involved in patient’s care, planning as outlined in the unit philosophy
• Demonstrating and undertaking evidence-based practice playing an active part in the introduction of this evidence to improve patient centred care
• Supervising, assessing, mentoring and supporting junior Registered Nurses and Health Care Professionals including bank and agency staff in the clinical setting
• Increasing the level of knowledge and skills within the Ward/Directorate through sharing best practice and supporting others to develop their professional abilities
• Implementing and sharing good infection control practice
• Undertaking manual handling assessments and ensuring identified actions are met
• Have a working knowledge of safeguarding and take responsibility for the ongoing care of children in need.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Nurse

• Relevant post basic leadership course
• Mentors Course

Knowledge & Experience

• Proven evidence of recent Continuing Professional development
• Proven knowledge of patient administration system

• Proven venepuncture / Cannulation skills
• Proven Intravenous therapy skills

Aptitude & Abilities

• Good communication skills, written and verbal, with ability to demonstrate fluency, clarity and effectiveness at all levels
• Effective influencing skills: in general and with senior health care professionals

• Demonstrate potential management abilities.
• Ability to facilitate change within the work area.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY INCLUDING YOUR JUNK FOLDER.

If you need support with the online application process or require reasonable adjustments with the application and/or interview process please contact the Recruiting Manager for this post.

We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants about less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. We recommend contacting the manager of the role prior to applying and we commit to giving requests full consideration.

We welcome and encourage applicants who identify with all protected characteristics to apply for our roles. We believe that diversity strengthens our teams and improves our patients' experience. At UHP we aim to create an inclusive workplace and hospital where everyone feels they belong and included.

It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Providing false information is an offence & could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal/police action if an applicant is successful.

This is an automated process & the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us.

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Unsolicited CVs and Candidate Profiles/Details

University Hospitals Plymouth has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies.

We do, however, work with a defined list of preferred HTE Framework suppliers who may be invited to support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles.

In line with our preferred supplier list, we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the Trust’s Medical Workforce team.

We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to the Trust or Trust employees by any other means than the official route above. Where this is not observed the Trust reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and initiate discussions without payment of any agency fee.

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Submission of any unsolicited CVs, candidate’s details and/or proposals to the Trust will not be considered further and will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this Agency Protocol.

In order to establish and maintain good working relationships with the Trust’s agency suppliers, we ask that this Protocol is adhered to and thank you for your co-operation.