Staff Nurse Paediatric A&E

Job Overview

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting new ED that opened its doors in Spring 2019, which includes a new Paediatric Emergency Department (PED) with our own resus bay.

At Wexham Park PED, patient safety and effective patient care is our priority. Presently our PED see approximately one third of the patients that present to ED. We are looking to recruit paediatric staff nurses who are enthusiastic and motivated about emergency medicine. You will work with patients and their families; caring for children with minor injuries and illness, as well as paediatric traumas, and the critically unwell child in resus. Our nurses have the opportunities to attend in-house training programmes, these include, safeguarding training, domestic abuse, plastering/suturing, venepuncture/cannulation and IV training. Other courses available are the High Dependency module, Mentorship course, PILS and EPLS/APLS.

Main duties of the job

Establishes a good working environment in which all children and their families receive a high standard of care.

• In conjunction with the team leader be responsible for an identified area of clinical practice within the Children’s Emergency Department.
• Assess formulate and evaluate practice based programmes for children and young people in conjunction with their families and supervise the junior members of staff with their programmes of care.
• Maintain a learning environment enabling learner nurses to achieve learner objectives.
• Act as a role model to junior staff in Children’s Emergency Department.
• Act as a resource for the Emergency Department for Child protection Issues.
• Participate in the induction of all new staff.
• Maintain own continuous professional development.
• Any other duties, which may be requested by the manager, to facilitate the smooth running of the department.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RSCN/Child branch
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Child Protection Training
• Mentorship Course
• PILS
• EPLS
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in an acute or clinical environment
• Ability to prioritise patient care
• Ability to work independently
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to work independently
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Basic Nursing Skills
• A good level of clinical knowledge.
• Sound clinical knowledge.
• Awareness of current paediatric pathways in the emergency setting
• Child protection
  
  

Desirable criteria

• IV drug administration
• Competence in Triage and Plastering
• Awareness to current NHS issues
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Flexible to the demands of the service
• Able to rotate to night duty
• Good time management
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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