Sister - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse Children Ambulatory Unit (CAU)

We are delighted to offer this amazing opportunity to join our friendly and diverse team.

Children's services at The Whittington Hospital are evolving and we are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, children's nurse who can actively assist in change and innovation.

CAU is dedicated to admission prevention, as such we accept children/ young people 0-18 years from the Paediatric Emergency Department, requiring further treatment or longer periods of observation.

We accepts referrals for continuing treatment, investigations and reviews, such as IV antibiotics, wound dressings, imaging and reviews.

We also accept emergency card holders for sickle cell patients allowing them to bypass ED and receive prompt and effective assessment and treatment.

CAU is on the second floor, same level as emergency department. The unit has two bays, two cubicles and a waiting area. Operating 07:30-20:00, 7 days a week.

We are dedicated to your professional development and have expert teams of clinical nurse specialists who will support your learning in areas such as allergy, asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, haemoglobinopathy and oncology.

Our PDN will ensure that you receive a comprehensive induction, preceptorship and create a development programme based on your individual needs and that of the department.

We provide internal and external study days linked to Paediatrics such as resuscitation, oncology and venepuncture/ cannulation.

To support PSSU manager in providing effective clinical leadership that ensures quality patient care, good communication: safe and efficient management of the service/department within allocated resources; facilitates the development of staff within the team.

To act as a role model and expert practitioner.

To undertake delegated responsibility in the absence of the Unit Manager.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Clinical

To set, monitor and maintain the highest standards of nursing care for children according to their level of dependency.

To assess, develop, implement and evaluate individual programmes of nursing care, supervising the programmes of care given by junior staff.

This should be evidence based.

To initiate a suitable discharge plan beginning at admission to support the model of ambulatory care.

To actively support and promote the involvement of parents and carers in the management and evaluation of care, by working together in partnership.

To act in a consultative capacity on paediatric matters when required.

To establish and maintain effective communication with nursing, medical, paramedical and ancillary colleagues in order to provide optimum child/family care.

To establish and maintain effective communication with the parents and relatives of children to ensure that they have every assistance, including preparation for discharge home.

To provide support and counselling for children, their parents and nursing staff as appropriate.

To liaise internally and externally with key staff in other departments to ensure that the specific needs and care of the child in hospital and for discharge home are identified and met.

To act as an effective role model to junior staff and students.

To demonstrate knowledge of clinical governance.

To be competent in the use of equipment necessary for the resuscitation and stabilisation of children with life threatening illnesses and injury.

To be competent in IV drug administration.

To be competent in obtaining blood specimens for analysis i.e. venepuncture, SBR, capillary blood analysis and acting on the results where appropriate.

To undertake training and provide advanced assessment skills as required

To undertake training and provide specific care as required, e.g. venepuncture and cannulation. administration.

To have an awareness of Safeguarding issues and the ability to take appropriate actions.

Management:

To regularly deputise for the Senior Sister as required

Demonstrate ability to prioritise according to patient and service need.

To provide leadership to junior nurses.

To assist in the development of paediatric nursing policies, protocols and guidelines ensuring that they are implemented followed and evaluated.

To attend P