Children's Staff Nurse
The closing date is 05 September 2025
Job summary
Are you an experienced Children's Nurse ready to take the next step in your career? Join our welcoming and dynamic Children's Services team at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, where we deliver safe, high-quality, and compassionate care for children, young people, and their families.
We are currently recruiting experienced Band 5 Registered Children's Nurses to work across our specialist areas:
Paediatric Emergency Department Children's Assessment Unit (CAU) Children's Ward Children's Day Surgery Unit With the opportunity for rotation into our Paediatric High Dependency Unit (HDU), where appropriate.
You will have the opportunity to express a preference for your clinical area, which will be considered during the recruitment process.
What were looking for:
NMC registered Children's Nurse (RSCN/RN Child).
Post-registration experience within paediatrics, with evidence of consolidating core nursing skills.
Confidence in delivering safe, effective and family-centred care. Strong clinical judgement, excellent communication, and teamwork skills.
Motivation to continue developing professionally and contribute to service improvement.
What we offer:
A supportive environment where your skills and experience are valued.
Opportunities to work in a range of specialist and acute paediatric settings.
Potential rotation into HDU to further develop your skills in enhanced care.
Access to training, education and professional development tailored to your career aspirations.
Main duties of the job
Initiate and participate in individual plans of care for the patient, involving the patient, if possible, and carers if appropriate, without direct supervision.
Perform patient observations such as blood pressure, pulse, respirations, oxygen saturations, Paediatric advanced warning score, pressure score, pain score, temperatures, and electrocardiographs. Record and take action on results.
Continually assess and evaluate the patients condition taking action where required.
Plan and organise the safe and timely discharge of patients adhering to the discharge policy.
Ensure safe ward admission and transfer to other hospitals or care settings.
Maintain clear, accurate, legible and timely written documentation in patients notes providing a record of care delivered.
Remind other members of the team to do likewise.
Perform procedures such as wound closure (by suturing, tapes or medical glue), local anaesthetics, urinary catheterisations, trephine nails, venepuncture, and intra venous cannulation.
Complete, record and report on Investigations such as blood glucose measurement, pregnancy testing.
Recognise child and vulnerable adult safeguarding issues and follow the interagency guidance and policy, informing the appropriate professionals and parents/carers of concerns and procedure.
Major Trauma Team member progressing to become nurse leader in resuscitation.
Initiate and participate in advanced life support and cardiac arrest management.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Details
Date posted
27 August 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£31,049 to £37,796 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
000613
Job locations
Pinderfields Hospital
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF1 4DG
Employer details
Employer name
The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address
Pinderfields Hospital
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF1 4DG
Employer's website
https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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