Are you a Registered Adult, Registered Paediatric or Registered Mental Health Nurse passionate about the holistic care of young people and looking to develop your leadership skills? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated professional to join our T12 South nursing and senior leadership teams in our Children and Young Peoples Division. T12 South is the largest multi-speciality unit leading the way in adolescent care in the UK.

• T12 South consists of 16 beds, providing inpatient and day case care for young people aged 13 - 19 years.
• We care for young people with a variety of complex medical and surgical conditions
• We have a dedicated multi-disciplinary team to support our young people with their physical and mental health needs

Main duties of the job

This post offers huge potential for further developing your clinical, leadership and management skills. You will be an integral part if the expert multidisciplinary team working closely together to deliver high quality adolescent care. The successful candidate will provide strong leadership and engage in service development, quality improvement and leading change, to shape our CYP services for the future.

Do you have excellent interpersonal skills, senior nursing experience, sound clinical skills, and the ability to work sensitively and collaboratively - if so we can offer you:

• Job satisfaction working within a dynamic multidisciplinary team
• Excellent career development and learning opportunities

About us

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

At UCLH, we have a real 'One Team' ethos, and our values - safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you are committed to delivering high quality patient care to ensure the safety and emotional well-being of our young people and their families, we look forward to your application.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

If you are committed to delivering high quality patient care to ensure the safety and emotional well-being of our young people and their families, we look forward to your application.

If you would like further information, we highly recommend you come and visit our team and unit.

For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse Part 1, 2 or relevant section of the register (Adult or Paediatric)
• Completed or working towards MSc or equivalent

Desirable

• Relevant teaching course
• Leadership / management development programme

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 4 years relevant clinical and managerial experience
• Relevant leadership experience
• Experience and knowledge of research, audit, Exemplar Ward' activity

Desirable

• Experience and knowledge of CYP safeguarding and mental health provision

Communication and Information Processing

Essential

• Communicates effectively verbally, in writing and in electronic formats

Personal And People Development

Essential

• Demonstrates evidence of professional development in line with KSF, maintains updated Portfolio
• Is able to act as a specialist nursing resource / practice educator or supervisor in line with local needs

Service Improvement and Quality

Essential

• Able to deliver evidence-based practice
• Demonstrates understanding of principles of Clinical Governance, e.g. Risk Management, audit & quality

Assessment and Care Planning to Meet Health and Wellbeing Needs

Essential

• Acts on own initiative and problem-solves utilising resources available

Learning and Development and Information Processing

Essential

• Able to work on/under own initiative
• oAble to use IT to disseminate information e.g., e-mail, Power Point, Excel, MS Teams.

Desirable

• Demonstrates understanding of research-based practice

Financial Management

Essential

• Demonstrates awareness of resource management issues within boundaries

People Management

Essential

• Able to co-ordinate / facilitate a group of staff
• Able to instigate and make changes in practice within own division/trust wide
• Demonstrates awareness of quality and safety

Other requirements

Essential

• Knowledge and interest in holistic care for young people physical and mental health
• APLS/EPALS) or working towards

Employer details

Employer name

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

UCLH

235 Euston Road

London

NW1 2BU

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309-UCLH-3369