Paediatric Senior Staff Nurse

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

This position offers the post holder an exciting opportunity to work within the PATCH team "Providing Assessment and Treatment for Children at Home", with support from the Paediatric Emergency Department (PED) and the Paediatric Wards at St Mary's Hospital.

The post holder will use their clinical experience and skills to independently assess and manage acutely unwell children, ensuring all children referred to the PATCH team receive high quality, compassionate and effective care at home.

The post holder will utilise face to face, virtual and telephone consultations and where escalation of treatment is required, liaise with the hospital teams ensuring timely care is maintained.

This role involves the use of public transport to travel to home visits, expenses for which will be reimbursed.

Interviews Wk beginning Dec 16th 2024

Main duties of the job

• Assist in the reduction of acute admissions to inpatient hospital beds by supporting children and families in the community to self-manage conditions.
• Provide high quality, effective, individualised care to all patients that is compassionate and caring.
• Assess care needs and implement and evaluate them without direct supervision.
• Assist in monitoring the performance of the project.
• Work closely with the lead nurse, lead consultant and multi-disciplinary team members both in the hospital and community to monitor and maintain policies, standards of nursing care and staff development.
• Be flexible in the approach to the clinical and community area and provide support for junior staff and students.
• Deputise for the Project Lead Nurse when required.
• Liaise with outside agencies to include Police, Social Services, Ambulance Service, Mental Health Team, and Safeguarding services

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Graduate Nurse
• Registered Sick Children's Nurse

Desirable criteria

• Emergency or Community Nursing Course
• Teaching Qualification or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum of 2 years post registration acute paediatric nursing

Desirable criteria

• Community nursing experience

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• PILS course
• Safeguarding Level 3
• Ability to Prioritise
• Basic IT skills.
• Able to use initiative.

Desirable criteria

• APLS / EPLS course or equivalent

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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

• Job description (DOCX, 972.7KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)