Job Overview
Paediatric Emergency Nurse Practitioners
Location: Frimley Park Hospital
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 1.46 FTE (55 hours total) – Full-time and Part-time positions available
We are looking for experienced
Paediatric Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENPs) to join our dedicated team at Frimley Park Hospital. This is an excellent opportunity for clinicians with a solid background in paediatric emergency nursing, particularly in the assessment and management of minor injuries and illnesses.
In this role, you will deliver high-quality care to children presenting with non-life-threatening conditions. You’ll also have the opportunity to work across other areas of the Emergency Department, ensuring a varied, fast-paced, and engaging work environment.
We welcome applications from enthusiastic, forward-thinking, and highly motivated practitioners who are passionate about paediatric care. If you’re ready for a challenging and fulfilling role that offers scope for professional development and meaningful patient impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
To work independently with the nurse led minor injury and illness of Paediatric Emergency Department patients.
To work as an independent practitioner managing a caseload of patients.
To act as a role model in delivering emergency care to patients.
Primarily successful candidates will work with minor injury and illness patients but will also be expected to work in all other areas of the department on a monthly basis.
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Paediatric Nurse
- BSc/MSc module for Nurse Practitioners
- Mentorship qualification
Desirable criteria
- Independent Non-Medical Prescriber Course
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Self-motivated with the ability to motivate others
- Influencing skills
- Innovative and enthusiastic
- Ability to undertake change
- Sensitive to staff issues
- Awareness of current professional nursing issues
- Own professional development
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of EPR system
- Teaching and assessing skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Emergency care experience
- Experience as a Nurse Practitioner
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- To work in other areas of the Department when required
- Able to work flexible shifts, weekends and Bank Holidays as rostered
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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