Paediatric Staff Nurse - Paediatric Emergency Department

Camberley, England, United Kingdom

7/24/2025

Job Overview

Paediatric Staff Nurse (Emergency Department)

Location: Frimley Park Hospital

Department: Paediatric Emergency Department

Position Type: Permanent (2.18 WTE full-time and part-time roles available)

We have an exciting opportunity for experienced and enthusiastic Paediatric Staff Nurses to join our supportive, dynamic, and forward-thinking team in the Paediatric Emergency Department at Frimley Park Hospital.

Our department sees approximately 30,000 children annually, aged 0–17 years, presenting with a wide range of conditions from minor injuries and illnesses to major trauma and resuscitation. Patient safety and high-quality, child-centred care are at the heart of everything we do.

Frimley Park Hospital is proud of its strong local and national reputation for delivering consistently high standards of clinical care. A key factor in this success is our commitment to ongoing staff training and professional development.

You will be supported by a dedicated Practice Development Lead and a structured Staff Nurse Development Programme, helping you build key emergency nursing skills.

If you are a motivated paediatric nurse who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about emergency care, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of a team of nurses, health care assistants and the wider multidisciplinary team and be responsible for the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating of nursing care.

The fast-paced environment of Paediatrics ED means our staff have to be adaptable in adjusting their priorities to patient and departmental needs which can change rapidly. We are looking for motivated and flexible nurses that are able to adapt to this ever-changing environment, whilst keeping patient safety and compassion at the forefront of everything they do.

• In conjunction with the nurse in charge, be responsible for an identified area of clinical practice within the Children's Emergency Department
• Assess, formulate and evaluate practice based programmes for children and young people in conjunction with their families and supervise the junior members of staff with their programmes of care
• Maintain a learning environment enabling student nurses and NQN's to achieve their learning objectives
• Act as a role model to all staff within the Children's Emergency Department
• Act as a resource for the Emergency Department for child protection issues
• Participate in the induction of all new staff
• Maintain own continuous professional development
• Any other duties, which may be requested by the manager, to facilitate a smooth running of the department
  
  

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

• Current NMC registration
• Registered Sick Children's Nurse
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Child protection training
• Mentorship Qualification
• PILS
• EPLS
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in an acute or clinical environment
• Ability to prioritise patient care
• Ability to work independently
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Accident & Emergency department experience
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations
• Awareness of current paediatric pathways in the emergency setting
• Child protection
• Sound clinical knowledge
• Ability to work under pressure
  
  

Desirable criteria

• IV drug administration
• Competent in triage
• Competent in plastering
  
  

Special requirements

Essential criteria

• Able to rotate night duty
  
  

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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