Band 5 Staff Nurse - Paediatric A&E

Experienced Paediatric Nurse Opportunity

Are you an experienced Paediatric Nurse with at least 6 months post-graduate experience working as a nurse? Are you passionate about delivering excellent patient and family-centred care?

We have an opportunity for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our dynamic and rapidly developing Emergency Department team at the North Middlesex University Hospital.

Key Benefits

• Opportunity to further develop your emergency care skills and achieve nationally recognized competencies in line with emergency care standards.
• Our own Paediatric A&E Practice Development Nurse.
• A robust and comprehensive continuing professional development plan for all our staff.
• EPLS, ATLS, and TILS offered in-house, with most of our senior team being instructors for these courses.
• Strong links with three leading London universities: Middlesex University, London South Bank University, and City University.

Our Commitment

We are committed to providing safe, evidence-based care to our patients and ensuring this by maintaining our staff members' educational needs.

Trust Values

We are looking for outstanding individuals to join our wonderful team who are able to embody our Trust Values of being positively welcoming, actively respectful, clearly communicating, and visibly reassuring.

Please note this vacancy is capped and may close early.

Responsibilities

• Manage, uphold, and provide all aspects of patient and family-centred care.
• Act in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct and escalate concerns appropriately to the nurse in charge.
• Work effectively as a member of the multidisciplinary team, communicating & liaising with colleagues to provide evidence-based, holistic care.
• Demonstrate best practice based on current advances in nursing practice, research & act as a positive role model for students & junior staff.
• Participate in the teaching, supervision & development of student nurses and support the learning of less experienced staff.
• Provide safe, effective & high-quality nursing care, maintaining competent clinical skills within own scope of practice and recognising personal limitations.
• Assist in identifying safeguarding & child protection concerns and make referrals to appropriate multidisciplinary team members, including social care.
• Comply with infection prevention and control procedures at all times.
• Uphold the policies, procedures & standards of North Middlesex Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and all relevant statutory and professional obligations.
• Maintain strict confidentiality relating to patients and staff.
• Take responsibility for personal health, safety & wellbeing, and that of colleagues, visitors & patients, including clinical governance and risk management responsibilities associated with the role.
• Be responsible, with management support, for ongoing personal and professional development.