Staff Nurse Childrens Outpatients

at  North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to offer a Band 5 Paediatric staff nurse role within Paediatric Outpatient services.
The paediatric service adopts a holistic approach to care and quality improvement. Patient safety and service improvement is at the forefront of our philosophy and we seek to recruit nurses who are motivated, promote high standards of patient care and work effectively as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
The paediatric children’s nursing team consists of a range of staff nurses, advanced nurse practitioners and specialist nurses including diabetes, gastroenterology, neuro-disability, Epilepsy, Respiratory and continence. The post holder will work collaboratively with members of the multi-disciplinary team across community and secondary care settings and utilising a family centred approach to care.
Within the service we have a special care baby unit which consists of 11 cots
Children’s and young person inpatient ward, including assessment/elective unit
Children’s and young person’s emergency department.
Children’s and young person community team and outpatient department
There are a wide range of opportunities to support your professional development available .
In addition to supporting clinics delivered by Consultants, Nurse Specialists and a range of other professionals from Paediatrics and other care groups, you’ll be performing/supporting a wide range of clinical investigations/procedures, including:
Paediatric phlebotomy (for secondary care and all GP surgeries in the Stockton and Hartlepool area)
You will be expected to-
Assess, deliver and evaluate planned programmes of care to meet the patient’s health needs and general well-being during nurse led clinics.
Establish and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups overcoming any problems in communication.
Contribute to the development of services.
Must work well with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure patients have a safe and effective journey throughout the service.
Will play a key role in the supervision and assessment of pre and post basic learners and unregistered staff providing a teaching role and acting as named supervisor.
Promote people’s equality, diversity and rights.
Maintain and support the efficient use of physical and /or financial resources.
At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.
We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition – a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.
We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
We recruit for values and “Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool”
In addition to supporting clinics delivered by Consultants, Nurse Specialists and a range of other professionals from Paediatrics and other care groups, you’ll be performing/supporting a wide range of clinical investigations/procedures, including:
Paediatric phlebotomy (for secondary care and all GP surgeries in the Stockton and Hartlepool area)
You will be expected to-
Assess, deliver and evaluate planned programmes of care to meet the patient’s health needs and general well-being during nurse led clinics.
Establish and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups overcoming any problems in communication.
Contribute to the development of services.
Must work well with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure patients have a safe and effective journey throughout the service.
Will play a key role in the supervision and assessment of pre and post basic learners and unregistered staff providing a teaching role and acting as named supervisor.
Promote people’s equality, diversity and rights.
Maintain and support the efficient use of physical and /or financial resources

Please refer the Job description for details