BAND 5 Paediatric Staff Nurse

Our busy Children’s Department operates across two sites: Queen’s Hospital, Romford and King George’s Hospital, Ilford. We provide a full range of general medical and surgical services for children and young people. Facilities include two inpatient wards (one with a co-located 4-bedded HDU), two Children and Young People’s Assessment Units (CYPAU at QH and Dahlia at KGH), a day unit with POSCU and hematology services, outpatient departments with a GP hot clinic, Clinical Nurse Specialists and a Children’s Community Nursing team.

We also have a well-established 32-cot Level 2 NICU with community and outreach teams supporting babies on discharge. Children’s Emergency Departments are based on both sites, with combined attendances exceeding 62,000 per year, making us one of the busiest services nationally.

Our expanding Children’s Nursing team is led by the Director of Nursing for Child Health. Staff are supported by Clinical Nurse Educators, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners, Quality Managers and a strong multidisciplinary team. We offer excellent learning and development opportunities, including in-house leadership programmes and academic pathways in partnership with universities.

We are proud to invest in our staff and live our PRIDE values: Passion, Responsibility, Innovation, Drive and Empowerment. The Trust is also at the forefront of NHS transformation as part of the Virginia Mason Institute Programme and a national Vanguard site

To be a saf

e and effective practitioner able to provide high quality care to patients and support to relatives. To work within the multi-disciplinary team to provide continuing care to a group of patients from admission to discharge in the department.

To participate in the teaching and supervision of junior staff and student learners as required. To maintain own personal development with support.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majori

ty of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: WENDY GILLHAM Job title: WARD MANAGER Email address: w.gillham@nhs.net Telephone number: 01708 435 000

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