Staff Nurse (Children's Services) in Leeds inLeeds PUBLISHED TUE 15 OCT 2024 Jump to job information section

Band 5 Registered Nurses

We are looking to welcome nurses in to our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Haematology and Oncology wards.

Are you ready to launch your career in an exciting and vibrant Childrens Hospital? Are you seeking a new opportunity and adventure? Then look no further than the Leeds Childrens Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Leeds Childrens Hospital is one of the UKs largest childrens hospitals with state-of-the-art treatments and facilities. We provide one of the most comprehensive ranges of specialist childrens services in the country and are recruiting across the following specialities:

Paediatric Critical Care

Oncology and Haematology

Please do state your preference for specialty and/or rotational programme in the supporting information section on your application form.

If you are a newly qualified nurse, we will support you during your first 12 months with our Preceptorship programme. This offers structured personal and professional development as you transition to registered practice and includes a supernumerary period, Introduction to Professional Practice (IPP), and a bespoke education pathway for all our clinical areas.

The role is to provide and be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation & evaluation of individualised family centred, infant, child or young person focused programmes of care. You will deliver care without supervision & take responsibility as the prime care provider for a group of patients & at all times promote confidence in our commitment to provide excellent compassionate family centred, infant, child or young person focused patient care. The role will involve taking charge of the ward or department as necessary in the absence of the Sister or Charge Nurse. You will participate in the in-service training, preceptorship & mentorship of junior staff, post basic learners & students as well as maintaining your personal development. The jobholder will work within an environment caring for infants/neonates, children and or young people in providing child or young person focused care.

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The role is to provide and be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised family centred, infant, child or young person focused programmes of care. You will deliver care without supervision and take responsibility as the prime care provider for a group of patients and at all times promote confidence in our commitment to provide excellent compassionate family centred, infant, child or young person focused patient care.

The role will involve taking charge of the ward or department as necessary in the absence of the Sister or Charge Nurse.

You will participate in the in-service training, preceptorship and mentorship of junior staff, post basic learners and students as well as maintaining your personal development.

Leeds Childrens Hospital is a large secondary and tertiary hospital providing a wide range of specialities to the population of Leeds as well as the wider North Region. The jobholder will work within an environment caring for infants/neonates, children and or young people in providing child or young person focused care.