Paediatric Junior Sister - Ward 24 and PAU - #145172

Job Overview

We are looking for a well-organised, motivated and enthusiastic nurse to join our team. Ward 24 is a dynamic, fast paced unit consisting of 29 Inpatient beds and 8 Paediatric Assessment beds. Within the ward footprint is an established High Dependancy Unit which has recently been given Level 2 status.

The role of Band 6 sister requires a pro active, forward thinking nurse. The successful candidate will help further develop the team, whilst delivering exceptional levels of care and family support.

You will require excellent organisational, communication and team working and the ability to support and deliver paediatric care with effective leadership and management skills. As well as supporting the junior nursing and clinical team, you will be expected to support and share the vision of the Senior Nursing team.

You will require excellent organisational, communication and team working and the ability to support and deliver paediatric care with effective leadership and management skills.

Main duties of the job

As a member of the Paediatric Ward team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, family-centred care to children and young people with a broad spectrum of medical and surgical conditions. You will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care in collaboration with children, families, and the wider multidisciplinary team.

Your duties will include the safe administration of medications, monitoring and responding to changes in clinical condition, maintaining accurate documentation, and contributing to discharge planning. You will support children and their families during potentially stressful times, offering reassurance, education, and emotional support.

Working within an integrated children’s service, you will liaise with various health and social care professionals to ensure continuity of care and a holistic approach to treatment. You will participate in safeguarding processes, attend relevant meetings, and follow up on concerns appropriately.

You will also be expected to contribute to service improvement initiatives, uphold infection control standards, and promote a positive and inclusive environment. The role includes opportunities for personal development through regular supervision, training, and involvement in clinical audits or projects.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

• RNC
• HDU competencies
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Undertaking or completed further academic study Relevant specialist course
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant post registration experience in an acute setting
• Experience of taking charge in a Paediatric setting
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of leading a team
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• IV trained
• Central line trained
  
  

Desirable criteria

• APLS/EPLS
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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