Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Children's registered nurse to join Children's Services at the Friarage Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to work within the well-established Children's Hub team. The Children's Hub is an integrated paediatric service providing care for children admitted to inpatient day case services, children's out-patient services and children within a community setting.

There is an expectation, at times of service need, that you may be required to work in other children's services across the Trust that are based at James Cook hospital in Middlesborough.

As a member of the Children's Hub nursing team, you will be part of a forward thinking, friendly team and will be supported to develop professionally. The successful candidate will need to be motivated, have strong communication and organisational skills, be able to work as part of a team as well as having the skills to work autonomously and effectively prioritise their workload.

As a member of the Children's Hub team you will provide high quality, evidence based holistic care to children with acute and chronic health needs, within their own homes or a community setting such as respite care centre or an educational setting. Care for children will also be provided across the acute inpatient and outpatient setting.

Main duties of the job

In this post you will provide highly skilled, quality clinical and non-clinical care, which is outcome focused, to support children and young people and their families, to enable them to live, participate and achieve in all aspects of life, e.g. at home and within their community.

The workload is varied and interesting with an opportunity to develop further knowledge and skills. A variety of skills including wound care, venepuncture, complex airway management, central line care, administration of IV, I/M, S/C treatment, skin prick testing, palliative care, health promotion and much more. Candidates will be supported with an induction period.

The successful candidate must be able to work flexibly between the hours of 8am and 6pm, Monday to Friday.

The role involves teaching parents/carers/children/young people, and other health professionals as required and supporting pre and post registered nursing students.

This role requires an experienced clinician with team working and communication skills, who can deliver effective evidence-based care to a defined demographic population with diverse health care and social needs.

The successful candidate needs to be prepared to adapt to the changing needs of the Trust and the community models of care as they arise.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our staff in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

o Your Leadership Impacto Leading Your Team to Successo Service Improvement for Beginnerso Developing your Service Improvement Skills

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:o Explore leadership within the NHSo Promote Trust values and behaviourso Develop your leadership effectiveness and skillso Equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these three and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Friarage Hospital

Northallerton

DL6 1JG

Employer's website

https://jobsincare.com/job/jns0iE1lVIZ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Friarage Hospital

Northallerton

DL6 1JG

Employer's website

https://jobsincare.com/job/jns0iE1lVIZ (Opens in a new tab)

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