Band 5- Staff Nurse-Paediatric Day Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

Childrens Service Centre/Directorate

Job Title: Staff Nurse-Paediatric unit

Band: Nursing Band 5

Hours of Work (p/w): 37.5 hours

Service Centre/Directorate: Childrens Services

Base: Jungle ward

Post Holder may be required to work anywhere in the

Paediatric unit.

Accountable to: Matron /Head of Nursing

Reports to: Ward Sister/Charge Nurse.

Responsible for: Individual direct specialist nursing care.

Key working relationships:

Role of the Department:

Job Summary: Provide excellent nursing care, supervise and mentor Student Nurses and Health Care Assistants, act as an advocate for child and family and participate and contribute to the management of wards.

Trust Vision & Values:

The postholder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust vision of:

St Georges Healthcare NHS Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.

With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co-located with St Georges, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with Kings Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

St George's Hospital Paediatric unit is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurosciences, Hematology care, , cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4s 24 Hours in A&E programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.

We also provide services at Queen Marys Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.

As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St Johns Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and peoples own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.

Main Duties/Key Results Areas: Focusing, where possible, on outcomes qualitative as well as quantitative.

The following responsibilities are common to all posts in the Trust and should be included at some point in the job description.

• To have responsibility for the Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others and to comply at all times with the requirement of the Health and Safety Regulations.

• To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments.

• To work in accordance with the Trusts Equal Opportunities policy to eliminate unlawful discrimination in relation to employment and service delivery.

• To promote at all times equal opportunities for staff and patients in accordance with St Georges Healthcare policies to ensure that no person receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of: age; disability; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race (ethnicity); religion or belief; sex (gender); gender reassignment or sexual orientation.

• To ensure skills are up-to-date and relevant to the role, to follow relevant Trust policies and professional codes and to maintain registration where this is a requirement of the role.

(For management posts the following sentence should also be included: To be trained in and demonstrate fair employment practices, in line with trust policies)

• To comply with Georges Healthcare No Smoking Policies.

• To undertake such duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade and the needs of the service.

This job description is not an exhaustive document but is a reflection of the current position. Details and emphasis may change in line with service needs after consultation with the postholder.

St Georges Healthcare NHS Trust is an Equal Opportunities employer and operates a No Smoking Policy.

Factor

Essential

Desirable

(becomes essential to full KSF)

Method of Assessment

Qualifications & Training

Registered Nurse (Children)

Application form.

NMC register

Experience

a) Computer literate.

b) Experience in assessment, planning and evaluation of patient care according to individual needs.

a) A minimum of 12 months post registration experience for working towards specialist course e.g Critical Care, oncology/neurology etc.

Interview

Application Form/CV

NMC Register

Skills

a) Demonstrate sound written, numeric and verbal communication skills.

b) Demonstrate the ability to apply research evidence to clinical practice and professional issues.

c) Demonstrate the ability to supervise and mentor more junior staff.

d) Demonstrate ability to work with and to use resources effectively as part of the MDT.

e) Ability to prioritise/adapt quickly and organise own workload and workload of more junior staff.

f) Ability to use own initiative.

g) Demonstrate an ability to create a trusting relationship with a child

a) Ability to take charge of the ward in the absence of the Ward Manager on a regular basis.

b) IV administration course

Interview.

Portfolio/CV

Relevant experience

Practical test

Knowledge

a) Awareness of professional responsibilities.

b) Demonstrate an understanding of normal child development and the sick child

c) Demonstrate an understanding of the role of advocate for the child.

d) Demonstrate an understanding of child safeguarding issues.

e) Able to demonstrate own continued education and updating and the importance of developing self and others.

f) Demonstrates an understanding of clinical risk/governance.

g) Ability to identify stress in self and others and to take effective action to manage the situation

a) Experience of undertaking small research or audit projects

Interview

Portfolio/CV

Application form

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Qualifications and Training

Organisational Management

Essential

• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care according to individual needs.
• Ability to effectively prioritise workload and patient care needs.
• Demonstrates an understanding of managing resources
• Demonstrates an understanding of clinical risk

Desirable

• Computer literate

Education & Research

Essential

• Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of research and evidence based practice
• Understands the importance of developing self and others

Desirable

• Demonstrates an understanding of audit
• Ability to take on small research or audit project.

General & Personal

Essential

• Motivated and demonstrates an enthusiasm for the speciality
• Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to patient care
• Sound verbal and written communication.
• Adaptable and responsive to changing needs
• Ability to use own initiative
• Ability to identify stress in self and others and to take effective action to manage the situation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT

Employer's website

https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)