Job overview

Paediatric Staff Nurse - Emergency Department

Division: Medicine & Emergency Care

Care Group: Emergency and Acute

Band: 5                                 

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum / pro rata

We are recruiting for a Paediatric Staff Nurse who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and have the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will be expected to be able to work in a small team within the Emergency Department, having close links to the Paediatric Unit, Resuscitation Service, Safeguarding Teams and Medical Staffing.

As a Paediatric Staff Nurse you will ensure that you work towards providing our children and young persons with a safe, effective and efficient service. You will be under the direct supervision of a band 7 Senior Sister and team of experienced Clinical Sister’s. You will require skills in safe assessment of children, using an ABCDE approach, be able to administer treatments and medications as prescribed.

In addition, you will be expected to assist senior staff in audits, help with CSW teaching sessions and mentor students.  You would need to keep up to date with research and new guidance and would be actively encouraged to bring new ideas to the department.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.