Associate Practitioner Band 4 Children's Emergency - Basildon, United Kingdom - Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Basildon, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Have you got experience with children and hold an NNEB or NVQ level 3 equivalent qualification, are you looking for a new challenge? Come and join our team at Basildon Hospital Paediatrics as a Band 4 Associate Practitioner.

The Band 4 Associate Practitioner is an exciting role, the successful applicant will be taught vital skills such as care of a tracheostomy tube, venepuncture, cannulation, NG feeding and tube placement, wound closures, plastering and much more.

You will work alongside the multi-disciplinary team in the delivery of high standards of care to children and young people who present with medical and complex needs.

The successful applicant with support and training will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for specified children and young people in a dynamic Children's Emergency Department according to their individual needs.

You will work with the team flexibly across the children's unit to create a caring and safe environment for children, young people and their families.

The successful applicant will learn how to assess and recognise clinical deterioration in patients and report to the nurse/doctor in charge of their care by means of monitoring and recording the patient's condition.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be.

Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Please see the Job description attached along with the personal spec for a full outline of duties and responsibilities the successful applicant will be provided with the relevant training to undertake the role.