Band 3 Paediatric Accident Department Assistant

Job summary

We are looking for enthusiastic, committed, and hardworking individuals to join our Children's ED team. You must be able to work well under pressure and have a willingness to learn and develop your own skills. If this is you, we would be delighted to hear from you. The successful candidate will be expected to provide the highest standard of evidence based; patient centered care. You will have a passion for education training and development of staff which ultimately impact on the patients. Most importantly, you will share our PRIDE values and our desire to continue to improve. Our busy Children's Emergency Departments cover two sites - Queens Hospital in Romford and King George's Hospital in Goodmayes. We deliver a comprehensive range of general Paediatric and Surgical Services to our local communities. These are amongst the busiest Children's EDs in the country and we are always looking to build our team to provide the best service possible. For further details or to arrange an informal visit please contact: Sian Lloyd our Practice Development Nurse on ext 2217 or sian.lloy1d@nhs.net .

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide support and assistance to nursing staff through the delivery of holistic care for Patients within the Children's Emergency Department. The post holder will use their extended skills to ensure initial investigations are commenced upon arrival. The post holder will escort and supervise stable patients to radiology or the ward upon the nurse in charge's assessment.

Our CED team is constantly expanding, to support this you will be learning and developing your knowledge whilst ensuring your skills are kept fully up to date. You will be supported by our Practice Development Nurses, Senior Sisters/Charge Nurse, Matrons and members of the wider MDT Team. We know it takes happy motivated staff to be produce patient satisfaction, so we're making our hospitals a great place to work. It's about living in our values: Passion, Responsibility, Innovation, Drive and Empowerment - the PRIDE at the heart of all we do.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, was named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal in 2024.We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

ED Paeds

Rom Valley Way

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

ED Paeds

Rom Valley Way

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

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

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