Children's Sister / Charge Nurse

Wakefield, England, United Kingdom

7/18/2025

Lynette Reeder - Ward Manager and Lead Nurse for Children's HDU - [email protected]. 01924542448

About The Role

Join our dedicated team as a Children's HDU Nurse and make a real difference.

In this dynamic and rewarding role, you'll provide high-quality, compassionate care to acutely unwell children requiring close monitoring and specialised support. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll play a key part in delivering safe, effective, and family-centred care in a fast-paced, high-dependency environment. This is an opportunity to grow your clinical skills, contribute to service development, and support families during some of their most challenging times.

Main duties

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• Deliver safe, effective, and evidence-based nursing care to children requiring high dependency support.
• Monitor, assess, and manage the care of acutely unwell children, including those with complex medical needs.
• Use specialist equipment and clinical skills to provide continuous observation and intervention.
• Work collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary team to develop and implement individualised care plans.
• Act as a key point of contact for children and their families, offering support, information, and reassurance.
• Recognise and respond promptly to changes in a child's condition, escalating concerns appropriately.
• Safely administer medications and treatments in accordance with Trust policies and national guidelines.
• Contribute to clinical documentation, audits, and service improvement initiatives.
• Maintain high standards of infection prevention, patient safety, and safeguarding.
• Support junior staff, students, and new team members through supervision, mentorship, and role modelling.
  
  

Key Requirements

Key Requirements:

• Registered Children's Nurse (RNC) with current NMC registration.
• Post-registration experience in an acute paediatric setting, ideally with experience in high dependency or critical care.
• Strong knowledge of paediatric assessment skills, early recognition of deterioration, and management of acutely unwell children.
• Competence in clinical skills such as IV administration, airway management, and use of monitoring equipment (e.g. oxygen therapy, NG tubes, ECG monitoring).
• Current certification in Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS) is essential; EPALS (European Paediatric Advanced Life Support) is essential.
• Level 2 critical care qualification is essential
• Ability to remain calm and focused in high-pressure situations, with excellent clinical judgement and decision-making skills.
• A compassionate and child-centred approach, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to support children and families.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development, including completion or willingness to work towards relevant HDU/paediatric critical care training.
• Effective team working skills with a flexible, proactive, and positive attitude.
• Understanding of safeguarding, infection prevention, and governance standards in paediatric care.
• Teaching and assessing qualification
  
  

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application Guidance

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Our Benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support
  
  

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