Staff Nurse - Child Health - #722697

Job Overview

Are you an experienced paediatric staff nurse ready for a new challenge? Would you like to work for an innovative forward-thinking hospital? Every patient is special to us, which means every Nurse that cares for them must be too.

This is an exciting time to join the team at Southampton’s Children’s Hospital. We have a variety of appealing opportunities that have opened for experienced paediatric staff Nurses to join our team either in a specialist area of choice or as a rotation within the Children’s Hospital.

Southampton’s Children’s Hospital is a 115 bedded hospital catering for both local and regional children from the Wessex Region including the Channel Islands.

Our Children’s Hospital prides itself on providing a variety of specialist tertiary services. These include critical care for children (incorporating Paediatric ICU, Neonatal Intensive Care and Paediatric HDU), Oncology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Orthopaedics and Major Trauma, Urology, Nephrology, and ENT Surgery. The Children’s Hospital has a dedicated Children’s Emergency Department and is a Paediatric Major Trauma Centre.

Main duties of the job

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the ‘Job Description and Main Responsibilities’ section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

Working for our organisation

As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to. UHS is rated ‘Good’ by the CQC and in the latest national NHS Staff Survey, we were in the top 10 acute trusts for staff engagement and for staff recommending the hospital as a place to work or receive care.

All non-clinical roles may involve a mixture of on site and remote working, Specific details and flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process. UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.

Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 20% lower than London and 14 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

We are looking for highly motivated colleagues who have excellent care values and a strong sense of team spirit. We are a friendly, welcoming, and supportive team and there are opportunities to work across departments gaining clinical leadership and management skills along the way. We are invested in supporting all our staff to explore their own leadership perspectives and the importance of relationships with themselves and others with the objective of developing their skills in leading diverse and cohesive teams

Southampton Children’s Hospital is a tertiary paediatric Hospital which offer the following services:

Dedicated children's emergency and short stay department

Paediatric Major Trauma Centre

Paediatric Intensive care and Retrieval service

Paediatric Outreach service

Tertiary Oncology, Cardiology, Neurological, Surgical , Orthopaedic , Medical and Endocrine centre

Haemodialysis Unit

CAHMS team / Learning Disability Nurse

Dedicated Play Team

Tertiary medical , cardiac, and surgical neonatal unit

Neonatal retrieval service

Paediatric Medical Unit (PMU)

Paediatric High Dependency Unit (HDU)

G2 Paediatric Neurology

G3 Orthopaedics

G4 SUN (Surgery, Urology, Nephrology)

Piam Brown (Oncology)

John Atwell Day Ward (JADW)

E1 Ocean Ward (Surgical & Cardiology)

PICU

Children's Out Patients

Bursledon House

Neonatal Unit

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Qualified Nurse (Degree/Diploma)
• Patient First
• Working Together
• Always Improving