Staff Nurse - Paediatric Emergency Department

Job summary

Staff Nurse - Paediatric Emergency Department (PED)Wexham Park HospitalFrimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join the Paediatric Emergency Department at Wexham Park Hospital. Our modern Emergency Department opened in Spring 2019 and includes a dedicated Paediatric Emergency Department with its own resuscitation bay.

Patient safety and high-quality care are our priorities. The Paediatric Emergency Department currently sees approximately one third of all Emergency Department attendances, offering a fast-paced and varied clinical environment.

We are seeking enthusiastic and motivated Paediatric Staff Nurses with an interest in emergency medicine. You will work closely with children and their families, delivering compassionate, family-centred care to patients presenting with minor illness and injury, paediatric trauma, and the critically unwell child requiring resuscitation.

We actively support professional development and offer a range of in-house training, including safeguarding, domestic abuse awareness, plastering and suturing, venepuncture and cannulation, and intravenous therapy. Further development opportunities include the High Dependency Module, Mentorship Course, Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS), and European/Advanced Paediatric Life Support (EPLS/APLS).

Main duties of the job

Establishes a good working environment in which all children and their families receive ahigh standard of care.

• In conjunction with the team leader be responsible for an identified area of clinical practice within the Children's Emergency Department.
• Assess formulate and evaluate practice based programmes for children and young people in conjunction with their families and supervise the junior members of staff with their programmes of care.
• Maintain a learning environment enabling learner nurses to achieve learner objectives.
• Act as a role model to junior staff in Children's Emergency Department.
• Act as a resource for the Emergency Department for Child protection Issues.
• Participate in the induction of all new staff.
• Maintain own continuous professional development.
• Any other duties, which may be requested by the manager, to facilitate the smooth running of the department.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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