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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced paediatric nurse looking to work alongside an experienced children's team in the Paediatric Assessment Area of University Hospital of North Durham, providing excellent care to children and young people. We are looking for a paediatric nurse who is either working as a band 6 or is ready for the challenge of taking that next step. The candidate must be looking to work in a fast-paced Assessment Area. The successful candidate will be supporting new ways of working, delivering high standards of care whilst having the opportunity to expand their knowledge and gain experience around management of staffing, budgets etc.

There will be opportunities to develop new skills and knowledge, through training and development provided. You will be supported by the existing medical and nursing team to deliver high quality care to children and young people who require urgent treatment. You will be responsible for a small team off staff, ensuring they are supported and educated. You will also be expected to be a link nurse or a champion and feed back to the team in your chosen area. The focus we have in our department is family centred care

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to support staff and work within the multi-disciplinary team within the Paediatric Assessment Area. You will support and develop the team through change and will have a proactive role in the development of clinical standards and teaching within PAA. You will develop links with other departments/agencies within the Trust to ensure the delivery of an effective service for children and their families and will provide nursing care to children with varying medical and surgical conditions.

You will have responsibility for the management of the department ensuring high quality patient care whilst maintaining and improving performance. The post holder has clinical teaching and managerial responsibilities and will oversee a small team of nurses, HCAs and play specialists for which they are responsible for their development and management. You will provide strong leadership and have extensive knowledge and expertise in this area of nursing. You will be responsible to the Ward Manager and will be expected to deputise in their absence

Job description

This post entails providing excellent care to children and young people within the Paediatric Assessment Area and Emergency department of UHND.

TRUST BEHAVIOURS FRAMEWORK

Patients, public and staff have helped develop the Trusts Behaviours Framework of Values that inspire passion in the NHS and that should underpin everything it does. The NHS values provide common ground for co-operation to achieve shared aspirations, at all levels of the NHS. The post holder is required to commit to delivering the actions in the Trusts Behaviours Framework:

Working together for patients

Patients come first in everything we do. We fully involve patients, staff, families, carers, communities, and professionals inside and outside the NHS. We speak up when things go wrong.

Respect and Dignity. We value every person whether patient, their families or carers, or staff as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits.

Commitment to quality of care. We earn the trust placed in us by insisting on quality and striving to get the basics of quality of care safety, effectiveness and patient experience right every time.

Compassion. We ensure that compassion is central to the care we provide and respond with humanity and kindness to each persons pain, distress, anxiety or need.

Improving lives. We strive to improve health and wellbeing and peoples experiences of the NHS.

Everyone counts. We maximise our resources for the benefit of the whole community, and make sure nobody is discriminated against or left behind.

All employees are required to promote high quality care and good health and wellbeing through the enduring values described by the Department of Health: The 6Cs care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment.

Duty of Candour

All employees are required to comply with the Statutory Duty of Candour: The volunteering of all relevant information to persons who have or may have been harmed by the provision of services, whether or not information has been requested and whether or not a complaint or a report of that provision has been made

About us

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You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

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