Registered Children's Nurse

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Registered Children's Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Our Children's Emergency Department is purpose-built to provide exceptional care, featuring 2 paediatric resuscitation bays, 6 major treatment spaces, and a 10-bed Children's Assessment and Decision Unit. In addition, we have a 20-bed acute children's ward, a dedicated day services unit, and a wide range of community-based children's services.

We are committed to supporting your professional growth and development, tailoring opportunities to help you advance your career in the direction you choose. Whether you want to progress or stay in your current role, we'll work with you to help you become the best healthcare professional you can be.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

You will provide comprehensive care for a designated group of patients within the unit by identifying, assessing, planning, implementing, and regularly evaluating their needs in collaboration with the child and their family.

The successful candidate will deliver the highest quality of care that addresses the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of each child and their family, supporting their journey toward optimal health.

The post holder will respect and honour the customs, values, and spiritual beliefs of children and their families at all times.

You will foster a supportive environment that meets the psychosocial and developmental needs of children and young people, including access to play, recreational activities, and educational resources. You will ensure tailored support is available for those with special needs.

The successful candidate will maintain a courteous and helpful demeanour toward all patients and visitors within the ward or department.

You will also commit to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people at all times.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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