Paediatric Staff Nurse - Paediatric Emergency Department inPortsmouth inPortsmouth PUBLISHED TUE 29 OCT 2024

Are you a Paediatric Nurse with experience looking after children and are committed to providing excellent care? Do you have a desire to develop as a professional with a friendly, kind and supportive team to guide you on your journey? If this is you, come and join our team.

We care for children from 0 through to their 18th birthday, with a variety of needs which will increase your knowledge and skills and keep you challenged. We care for children who are ill or injured ranging from minor illness to major trauma.

We are currently in the process of building a brand new Emergency Department that is due to open later this year.

It is essential that the nurse applying has a NMC Paeds PIN, so is on the NMC register as a children's nurse. At this time we unfortunately cannot accept adults nurses that only have and adult NMC pin.

• Promote and set high standards of nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust policies, protocols and guidelines.
• Provide and deliver a high standard of evidence-based nursing care through the assessment, planning, and evaluating of individual patients needs based on evidence.
• Initiate and co-ordinate care in the clinical area for a specified group of patients.
• Recognise and respond to a change in patient status undertaking first line interventions within scope of practice and refer on to the appropriate clinician as required.
• Actively promote safe and effective working practices to prevent harm to the patients within your care and take part in safety audits to maintain high quality standards.
• Communicating and working with the multidisciplinary team to improve quality of care, and informed clinical decisions.
• Promote innovation and share any new ideas to improve patient care.
• Participate in the allocation of workload and ensure efficient bed management and effective patient flow

About us

• Ensuring high quality nursing care is coordinated and delivered using a family focused model of practice.
• Work as part of a cohesive multidisciplinary team ensuring patient care is delivered smoothly and efficiently.
• The expectations within this job description will be achieved through hands-on clinical practice, education and training and research.