Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Paediatric Critical Care Transport Nurse
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The Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS)
The Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS) is a 24-hour service dedicated to delivering the highest standard of paediatric intensive care to critically ill children and their families, from first point of contact through to arrival at their destination unit.
About the Role
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced Band 6 PICU nurse with a particular interest in the stabilisation and transfer of critically ill children. This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic, multi-professional team at the forefront of paediatric retrieval medicine.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate a commitment to innovation and service improvement.
- Deliver high-quality, evidence-based care to children requiring intensive care transport.
- Excellent communication skills, sound clinical judgement, and the ability to work confidently and effectively in unfamiliar and challenging environments.
Essential Requirements
- Ensure clinical practice reflects all current NMC documentation regarding nursing practice.
- Work within the Trust’s Policies and Procedures and the parameters set down in agreed local clinical protocols and guidelines and national guidelines such as those published by NICE.
- Maintains accurate multidisciplinary clinical records.
- Maintain clinical expertise in specialty area.
- Advise staff in relation to specialist area of practice.
- Identify learning needs in relation to specialist area of practice.
- Develop and evaluate teaching / learning resources.
- Provide teaching and learning support in a variety of settings.
- Establish and maintain internal and external links to promote and develop the service.
- Contribute to the development of specialist service in collaboration with CATS senior leadership team.
- Be proactive in developing own professional practice, demonstrating evidence of increased clinical judgment and decision-making skills.
- Participate in the Trusts’ system of annual appraisal and personal development planning.
- Assist in ensuring safety on transfer. Risk management is a major part of the PCC transfer process and the participation in clinical audit, clinical risk and quality issues, including the managing and reporting of clinical incidents is essential.
- Ensure effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team, referring hospital departments, receiving hospital departments, relatives and visitors.
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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job through a fair, open and consistent process that is free from bias and discrimination.
- We are working towards becoming an anti-racist organisation. This means creating a workplace where every colleague feels seen, heard and valued, and where racism in any form has no place. Our anti-racism commitment is backed by action through our Anti-Racism Statement and action plan, developed in collaboration with our REACH staff network.
- We actively challenge discrimination, dismantle barriers and embed equity across all aspects of our workforce, including recruitment, progression and development. All applicants will receive equal consideration regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, health condition or employment history.
- We particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, people with disabilities or long-term health conditions, and LGBTQ+ community members. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
- Our staff networks, including REACH, PRIDE, ENABLED and Women’s Networks, are active and executive supported. These employee-led networks play a vital role in shaping an inclusive culture at GOSH and are open to all colleagues.
- Together, we are building a culture where inclusion is not optional - it is essential.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Claire Fraser
- Job title: Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Email address: claire.fraser@gosh.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 02074305850
For an informal chat, please contact CATS ANPs Claire Fraser or Lou Burton on 020 7430 5850, or via email:
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