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Bank Paediatric Nurse - Emergency Department

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Jan 2025

💰 £71,300/yr

About the role

The closing date is 31st Jan 2025

Job summary

Good Hope Hospital and Birmingham Heartlands Hospital Paediatric Emergency Department are looking for talented, caring enthusiastic Paediatric trained and skilled nurses to join the Trusts nurse bank.

You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in the delivery of Paediatric Emergency care across both healthcare settings which care for and treat a variety of Paediatric patients each day.

You are required to hold a professional Paediatric NMC registration for this role.

For any information about joining the Nurse Bank to work in Paediatric ED please contact maria.kenny@uhb.nhs.uk or call 0121 424 9257

On the bank we can accommodate block bookings, day and night shifts including weekends.

Please note that all workers on a bank contract are required to work a Minimum 30 hours within 6 months to keep their bank contract active.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

*Maintain a high standard of patient focused care in accordance with NHS University hospitals Birmingham policies and procedures

*Maintain a safe and clean working environment

*Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care for patients ensuring accurate records are kept

*Communicate with our patients and their carers to ensure they have access to appropriate information

*Promote and maintain positive relationships between all staff involved in the care of the patient

*Act in accordance with the Nursing and midwifery council code of conduct

*Undertake duties as and when required by service demands

*Demonstrate personal responsibility for compliance with infection control polices and procedure

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Registered Paediatric Nurse on the NMC register

Experience

Essential

* Substantial post registration experience working in a complex health care settings

* Professional portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.