Job summary
The Royal London Children's services serves a growing population of babies, children and young people living in East London, which means we're the largest provider of children's services in London. Last year, our paediatric emergency services treated over 9,500 children - providing care for conditions ranging from minor injuries to life-threatening illnesses.
The Royal London Hospital is a leading, internationally-renowned teaching hospital with one of the largest children's hospitals, with one of the busiest Paediatric Critical Care Unit which serves the population of London and surrounding areas. The unit admits trauma and some of the sickest medical/surgical patients around this area and utilises The Royal London surgical teams to treat these patients. The hospital also has one of the busiest paediatric Accident and Emergency services in London.
We are one of the capital's leading major trauma centres, and benefit from London's Air Ambulance, which is based at The Royal London Hospital, and provides pre-hospital trauma care at the scene of serious incidents within the M25. We also host the Neonatal Transport Services for Pan London.
We are seeking a motivated and dynamic Children's Paediatric Critical Care Matron to provide their expertise to the existing established Paediatric Critical Care team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have overall accountability for the day-to-day management of the nursing/midwifery service across the departments they are responsible for.
The Post holder will be responsible for:
Providing professional and clinical leadership within the Paediatric Critical Care Unit at the Royal London Hospital site.
Translating the organisation's vision and values into meaningful actions for teams.
Managing teams within Children's and Young People's Services and holding the teams to account for the delivery of compassionate, high-quality care. This includes ensuring that all patients have an up to date, evidence-based care plan, including safeguarding and that is being actively implemented.
Managing teams within a highly complex environment taking in to account the ethnically diverse nature of staff and patients
Ensuring that patients, their families and carers are fully involved in assessment of the quality of care delivered and in service redesign
Monitoring and measuring the quality of care provided and taking the necessary steps to improve care when issues are identified.
Identifying areas for service improvement and implementing improvement initiatives using evidence-based methodologies
Ensuring that all staff members have up to date appraisals and development plans thus facilitating all staff to reach their full potential whilst protecting their wellbeing. Develop and lead on advanced practice.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse (Child)
- Degree/diploma/experience in relevant health area equivalent experience
- Post Registration Qualification in Intensive Care (children/neonates)
- Mentorship course
- Evidence of knowledge of managing people and services acquired through training and experience.
- Evidence of knowledge of managing people and services acquired through training and experience.
- Knowledge of service improvement methodologies.
- Evidence of continued professional Development.
- Leadership Course/Development Programme
Desirable
- Masters level ongoing study in leadership
- Foundation knowledge of service improvement methodologies
Experience and Skills
Essential
- Significant experience working in Paediatric Critical Care at Band 7 or above.
- Recent clinical experience in the relevant area of practice including Children's ward.
- Experience of change management and service improvement.
- Experience of collaborating with a multi-professional team.
- Experience of reflective practice
- Clinical skills and knowledge obtained through experience of working as a Children's nurse within a busy Children's Department
- Developed communication skills, both verbal, written and presentation
- The ability to provide nursing leadership and advice within the service, to lead and motivate staff.
- Can translate the trusts strategic objectives into tangible objectives for teams.
- The ability to hold staff to account for the quality of care delivered to patients.
- The ability to apply flexibility to working practice to meet needs of service users and changes in service models
- Ability of effective caseload management, incorporating planning and prioritising workload of self and others.
- The ability to monitor and evaluate the quality-of-service provision using performance data and implement necessary changes.
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-professional multi-agency environment.
- The ability to promote collaborative working partnerships with other agencies, problem solving and resolving conflict when needed.
- The ability and motivation to work creatively and positively with practitioners from other disciplines and agencies.
- Able to review current service delivery and identify opportunities to minimise waste and ineffectual working practices.
- Skills in IT and maintaining accurate data.
Desirable
- Proven effective budgetary Management.
Personal & people development & leadership
Essential
- Demonstrates a commitment to encourage others to get the best of team members to achieve results.
- Engage with others proactively to achieve objectives and get results.
- Actively creates opportunities to enable everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice.
- Is confident in their own ability particularly in relation to decision making.
- Is resilient when dealing with complex situations.
- Can value, respect and promote equality and diversity and understands the requirements of equality and diversity within service area.
- Can empathise and consider the needs and feelings of others
- Has experience of clinically supervising and appraising staff.
- Can absorb and deal constructively with criticism and seek support as necessary.
- Can identify own emotions, prejudices and understand how these can affect their judgement and behaviour.
- Can meet their responsibilities and commitments to a consistently high standard.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse (Child)
- Degree/diploma/experience in relevant health area equivalent experience
- Post Registration Qualification in Intensive Care (children/neonates)
- Mentorship course
- Evidence of knowledge of managing people and services acquired through training and experience.
- Evidence of knowledge of managing people and services acquired through training and experience.
- Knowledge of service improvement methodologies.
- Evidence of continued professional Development.
- Leadership Course/Development Programme
Desirable
- Masters level ongoing study in leadership
- Foundation knowledge of service improvement methodologies
Experience and Skills
Essential
- Significant experience working in Paediatric Critical Care at Band 7 or above.
- Recent clinical experience in the relevant area of practice including Children's ward.
- Experience of change management and service improvement.
- Experience of collaborating with a multi-professional team.
- Experience of reflective practice
- Clinical skills and knowledge obtained through experience of working as a Children's nurse within a busy Children's Department
- Developed communication skills, both verbal, written and presentation
- The ability to provide nursing leadership and advice within the service, to lead and motivate staff.
- Can translate the trusts strategic objectives into tangible objectives for teams.
- The ability to hold staff to account for the quality of care delivered to patients.
- The ability to apply flexibility to working practice to meet needs of service users and changes in service models
- Ability of effective caseload management, incorporating planning and prioritising workload of self and others.
- The ability to monitor and evaluate the quality-of-service provision using performance data and implement necessary changes.
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-professional multi-agency environment.
- The ability to promote collaborative working partnerships with other agencies, problem solving and resolving conflict when needed.
- The ability and motivation to work creatively and positively with practitioners from other disciplines and agencies.
- Able to review current service delivery and identify opportunities to minimise waste and ineffectual working practices.
- Skills in IT and maintaining accurate data.
Desirable
- Proven effective budgetary Management.
Personal & people development & leadership
Essential
- Demonstrates a commitment to encourage others to get the best of team members to achieve results.
- Engage with others proactively to achieve objectives and get results.
- Actively creates opportunities to enable everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice.
- Is confident in their own ability particularly in relation to decision making.
- Is resilient when dealing with complex situations.
- Can value, respect and promote equality and diversity and understands the requirements of equality and diversity within service area.
- Can empathise and consider the needs and feelings of others
- Has experience of clinically supervising and appraising staff.
- Can absorb and deal constructively with criticism and seek support as necessary.
- Can identify own emotions, prejudices and understand how these can affect their judgement and behaviour.
- Can meet their responsibilities and commitments to a consistently high standard.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
