Staff Nurse - Paediatric Emergency Department

Job Overview

Staff Nurse – Paediatric Emergency Department (PED)

Wexham Park Hospital

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join the Paediatric Emergency Department at Wexham Park Hospital. Our modern Emergency Department opened in Spring 2019 and includes a dedicated Paediatric Emergency Department with its own resuscitation bay.

Patient safety and high-quality care are our priorities. The Paediatric Emergency Department currently sees approximately one third of all Emergency Department attendances, offering a fast-paced and varied clinical environment.

We are seeking enthusiastic and motivated Paediatric Staff Nurses with an interest in emergency medicine. You will work closely with children and their families, delivering compassionate, family-centred care to patients presenting with minor illness and injury, paediatric trauma, and the critically unwell child requiring resuscitation.

We actively support professional development and offer a range of in-house training, including safeguarding, domestic abuse awareness, plastering and suturing, venepuncture and cannulation, and intravenous therapy. Further development opportunities include the High Dependency Module, Mentorship Course, Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS), and European/Advanced Paediatric Life Support (EPLS/APLS).

Main duties of the job

Establishes a good working environment in which all children and their families receive a high standard of care.

• In conjunction with the team leader 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 learner nurses to achieve learner objectives.

Act as a role model to junior staff in 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 the 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

• Registered Nurse (Child)
• Current (or pending) NMC registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• APLS or equivalent
• Module in emergency care
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Ideally some post registration nursing experience. Newly qualified considered on experience/interview
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Emergency Department and /or acute care experience
  
  

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Basic Nursing Skills
• A good level of clinical knowledge
• Sound clinical knowledge
• Awareness of current paediatric pathways in the emergency setting
• Child protection knowledge
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of EPR systems
• SLIP or equivalent mentorship course
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Flexible approach to working including working unsocial hours reflective to departmental requirements
  
  

Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.

Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.

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