Paediatric Nurse - Children's Unit - Huntingdon inHuntingdon inHuntingdon PUBLISHED WED 12 MAR 2025

Are you a Registered Children's Nurse or Registered Nurse with experience in caring for children and young people? Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge? We would love to receive an application from you.

We are a friendly, supportive team that is passionate about delivering first class care to the families and patients who access our service. We have state of the art facilities equipped with the latest equipment that ensures that children receive the very highest standards of healthcare. This gives our families the reassurance that the very best is being done for the people who mean the most to them.

Band 5 opportunities include:

• Protected supernumerary period
• Preceptorship programme with resilience based supervision
• Band 5 orientation workbook
• Mindfulness and wellbeing at work
• Opportunities to be involved in quality improvement/change management
• Opportunities for further study - both internal and external courses
• Career progression opportunitie

We are a 19 bedded unit which includes one High Dependency bed. We can accommodate up to 6 children for day surgery and work alongside the Paediatric Assessment Unit. Outpatient clinics also run Monday to Friday from the ground floor of the unit.

As part of this role you will be expected to rotate to Peterborough City Hospital Children Wards when there is a clinical need and to offer opportunities to expand on skills and knowledge.

We are a busy department in what can be a fast-paced environment. The right candidate will need to be a good communicator, be innovative and self-motivated. They should be committed to the provision of high standards of patient care for our children and families.

Ensure that patient care remains a priority in inter-professional practice and that referrals to the MDT are timely and discharge planning takes place where appropriate.

Be aware of the safeguarding agenda, ensuring protection and identification of vulnerable patients.

Ensure effective working relationships are established and maintained with colleagues across the Trust.

We are looking for a flexible individual to workfull time or part time hours. Our current shift pattern is 11.5 hour shifts on internal rotation to cover evenings and weekends.

Please note we are only able to accept applications from those with a live NMC registration or UK nursing students awaiting their PIN as we are unable to support OSCE at this time.

About us

1. Develop and discuss, with senior nursing team, new ideas and methods of practice to ensure the service is improved and developed as an ongoingprocess.2. Ensure that Trust clinical policies and procedures are complied with within the ward. Informing the Unit Sister of matters, which affect the implementation of the agreed policies.3. Assist with the provision of child centred care that incorporates the needs of children of all ages and stages of development.4. Work closely with the children and their families, being sensitive to their needs and promote family centred care within the ward environment.5. Act as an advocate for children wherever they are within the Trust and hospital setting and to advise colleagues on all matters concerning the nursing care of children.6. Assess the needs of patients within the clinical area, plan and implementindividualised holistic nursing care.7. Be self-motivating in ensuring the delivery of effective and sensitive evidence based care to a high standard at all times acting as a role model to more junior members of the team

Please see Job Description for further information