Senior Staff Nurse - Children's Emergency Department

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Are you a registered childrens nurse with experience working in a paediatric emergency department?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a self-motivated individual with ED experience to enhance their skills as a band 6 at LGT. You will have experience in triage, plaster of paris, Venepuncture and Cannulation, EPLS/APLS ect.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate would take charge in the busy Paediatric Emergency Department on a shift working long days and nights.

As a registered children's nurse, the post holder will provide leadership in the delivery of care to children, young people and their families in the emergency department setting. The post holder will be accountable and responsible for providing a high standard of child and family focused care. They will need to be able to carry out care without direct supervision as part of the Emergency Department team and supervise juniors and communicate effectively with the multidisciplinary team contributing towards the effective running of the department.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical duties include:
• Provision of expert specialist, high quality nursing care and support for children, young people and their relatives/carers.
• Appropriate delegation of duties to other members of staff for effective delivery of patient care.
• To provide timely nurse led interventions for the benefit of the child/ young person's care.
• To assess, plan implement and evaluate care of patients from admission to discharge to supervise juniors in the assessment and deliver of care.
• To be part of the effective admission / transfer / discharge of a patient involving the family, carers, significant other, multidisciplinary team and community teams when appropriate.
• To maintain effective channels of communication with patients, relatives and all staff involved in providing care.
• To provide and receive nursing handover reports in the role of team member, co-ordinator.
• To act as paediatric nurse in charge, coordinating care delivery to children and young people ensuring high quality care for every patient, every day.
• To be part of the process in implementing clinical governance and the impact this has on patient care, i.e., audit and evidenced based practice.
• Ensure that written documentation is maintained in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for Records and Record Keeping and Trust policy.
• To ensure that the storage and administration of Medicines is carried out according to statutory and Trust regulations.
• To act as a resource for adult trained nurses when they are involved in the care of children.

Person specification

Educational & Training

Essential criteria

• RN Child branch/ RSCN

Desirable criteria

• Diploma/Degree

Experience / Education

Essential criteria

• Substantial appropriate post registration experience
• Significant experience of working in an Emergency department environment
• Experience in audits

Desirable criteria

• Link nurse role

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Triage
• Plaster of Paris
• Venepuncture and Cannulation
• EPLS/APLS
• Practice Supervisor
• ED/HDU course

Desirable criteria

• Practice Assessor
• Roster management experience

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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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 and Candidate Info Pack (PDF, 270.6KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)