Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? Do you want to have a positive influence on patient care and experience? Do you want to be a part of a friendly, supportive and experienced team?

If your answer is yes then our Paediatric Ward at Wexham Park Hospital is the ideal place for you!

We are searching for motivated and enthusiastic Registered Children's Nurses who are passionate about delivering safe, high quality care to patients and their families with a progressive and innovative mindset for continuous service improvements.

Main duties of the job

We have a unique, caring and inclusive team who are delighted to be responsible for the care of Children and Young People from 5 days to 18 years old, across East Berkshire and South Bucks. Our department has a 5 bedded High Dependency Unit and 19 inpatient beds alongside a 6 bedded Day Surgery Unit. We have close links with our Paediatric Assessment Unit, Neonatal Unit, Children's Outpatient Department, Paediatric A& E and our Children's Community Nursing Teams as well as our regional Children's Hospital in Oxford. We promote strong interdepartmental and cross-site working relationships with both Heatherwood and Frimley Park Hospitals.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

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.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are focused on staff development opportunities. If successfully appointed, you can be assured of having experienced and supportive staff to help you settle into your new role including our Team Leaders, Senior Sisters, Paediatric Practice Development Team and our Clinical Matron - have a look at our Twitter handle @paedsedufh or search us on Facebook Paediatric Education at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.

If the above is something that inspires you, then we look forward to welcoming you into our team where YOU can start to make a difference to the children, young people and the families that we care for.

For further details or to arrange an information visit, you are more than welcome to contact:Angela Tedman - Senior Sister Paediatrics - Telephone: 0300 6154624 Angela.tedman@nhs.net

The latest CQC Report concluded that Childrens Services achieved a good standard in all five elements of care that were assessed: safe, effective, responsive, caring and well led.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Current paediatric experience

Desirable

• Monitors and contributes to protecting children and young people at risk, providing children who have been abused with support from others.2
• Participation in audit activity

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered sick children's nurse(NMC Sub Part 1(Children)/RN Child

Desirable

• Medication competency

Knowledge and Skill

Essential

• Aware of key principles of paediatric care and implications for practice
• Aware of research and evidence and implications for practice

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL

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