Sherwood Forest Hospitals have an exciting Band 5 opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Registered Children's Nurse to join our paediatric team.

As a Registered Nurse you will support the Ward/Department Leader in ensuring the delivery of high quality patient care, making a real difference to patient's lives.

Our children's ward is a 30 bedded unit with both medical and surgical beds, 2 high dependency beds and a Children's Assessment Unit within the ward and there are options to rotate within this. We also have a well-established day-case surgery pathway.

We are looking for first level Registered Children's Nurses, newly qualified or experienced who, are able to work flexibly over a 24-hour period, are eager to develop their skills and expertise and who keen to join a friendly, enthusiastic and supportive nursing team, who are dedicated to providing high quality, evidence based care.

At #TeamSFH we have a well-established Practice Development Team who will support you throughout the Preceptorship Programme if you are newly qualified.

Apply now to join our team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, wealso care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

• Well developed knowledge of paediatric nursing issues

Qualifications-Academic/ Craft/ Professional

Essential

• RN child, RSCN

Desirable

• Teaching qualification (ENB 998, D32/33)
• EPALS

Further Training

Essential

• Safeguarding children

Desirable

• Clinical supervision

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of children's services

Desirable

• Optimism and sense of humour
• Experience of audit and research

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• To work within a 24 hour rota, night duty and weekends

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL

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