Registered Nursing Associate

Job summary

Are you a Registered Nursing Associate looking for a new challenge working with children and young people? If so, this job could be for you! We have an exciting new vacancy in our Children's outpatients/ Paediatric Day Assessment Unit.

You will be assisting in the care of and supporting children and their families in an outpatient setting. We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated individuals with positive, cheerful outlooks, who are looking to build on existing skills and experience of working with and interacting with children and young people and their families, to join the nursing team.

The day unit is open from 8:00am - 18:00pm and care for children from 0-18 who require various treatments or investigations into their chronic conditions. This includes children with haematology, rheumatoid, endocrine, gastro conditions and food allergies.

The role will mostly involve working in the outpatient's department with opportunity to extend skills in the day unit. The outpatients are open from 0800 - 1800 and you will be meeting families who are attending for an appointment who will require a friendly face to meet and take height and weight measurements as well as other observations if required.

Our paediatric team provides comprehensive services. Ocean Day Unit is a 5 bedded unit. It takes a variety of admissions ranging from surgical, orthopaedic, oncology, haematology and various other conditions for children and young people aged 0-16 years old.

Main duties of the job

• Act in accordance with the Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates, and fulfill all registration requirements.
• To be familiar with and adhere to the Trust Code and behaviour and uniform and dress code policy.
• Respects the privacy, dignity, needs, beliefs, choices and preferences of patients and carers.
• Obtain the informed consent for the identified care to be undertaken, ensuring the patient/client has a good understanding and knowledge of the decision-making process and is provided with accurate and appropriate information.
• Maintain clear and accurate patient records using both digital and paper-based records.
• Recognise and effectively respond to emergency situations escalating support from the registered practitioner in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Work in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and local policy and practices, including safeguarding and raising concerns.
• Use a wide range of communication methods, including verbal, non-verbal and written, to interact with a variety of individuals including patients, carers and members of the multi-professional team in a manner which is safe, effective, compassionate and respectful.

About us

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium sized District General Hospital based in Edmonton in Enfield, North London. We serve a diverse multicultural population largely from the London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey. Many of our patients live in wards that are within the 5% most deprived in the UK and a large proportion of our patients were born abroad. This makes it both a fascinating and a challenging hospital to work in.

Over the last decade we have rebuilt almost all of the hospital and now have facilities that we are proud to work in. We employ over 3,500 staff, more than half of whom live locally. We encourage apprenticeships from the local community and work closely with our local Health Watch.

We are primarily an emergency led hospital with more than 90% of our bed days being used for patients admitted via our emergency and ambulatory units. As well as offering everything you would expect from a major acute hospital we have a number of tertiary services treating patients with HIV and Sickle Cell Disease and a large cancer and radiotherapy service. We also run our local community Sexual Health Clinics.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.