Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 151-CG-252
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 per annum inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Paediatric Junior Sister
Band 6
Job overview
We are looking for a well-organised, motivated and enthusiastic clinician to join our team. The role of Band 6 sister requires a dynamic forward thinking nurse, to help further develop the team, whilst delivering exceptional levels of care and family support. You will require excellent organisational, communication and team working and the ability to support and deliver paediatric care with effective leadership and management skills. As a Band 6 you will support the ward day to day responsibilities and will be involved in implementation of policies, protocols and procedures to ensure Trust and national standards are met. You will be required to support and develop the junior members of the clinical team and offer support to the Band 7. Whilst previous experience is welcome, training and development will be provided.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to work within an integrated children’s service providing care to children and their families on a general Paediatric Ward. The ward offers a wide range of experience, caring for children and young people with a range of medical and surgical conditions. The ward consists of 29 beds including a 5 bedded Level 1 HDU and designated teenage beds. There is also an 8 bedded Paediatric Assessment Unit attached.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Pre- registration student nurse placements and a preceptor ship programme for newly qualified nurses are supported within the clinical area.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- RNC
- Mentorship qualification
- HDU competencies
Desirable criteria
- Undertaking or completed further academic study Relevant specialist course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience in an acute setting
- Substantial experience on an acute surgical ward
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading a team
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- IV trained
- Central line trained
Desirable criteria
- Cannulation & venepuncture
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Angela Tedman
- Job title
- Ward manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0336151473
- Additional information
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