20 Oct
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley
Job Overview
Are YOU looking for an exciting new challenge? Do YOU want to have a positive influence on the development of pre and post registration staff within Children’s Services?
If your answer if YES, then our Paediatric Education Team is for you…
We are looking for an experienced children’s nurse with HDU and Nurse in Charge experience to work alongside and develop our clinical team, supporting preceptorship and staff working through their competency package.
Main duties of the job
Responsible and accountable for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programs of care without supervision.
To lead and monitor the performance and standards of care within the Nursing Team.
To take the lead on projects as appropriate.
In conjunction with the unit Matron and other Sister/Charge Nurses, facilitate the development of the service and personal development of all nursing staff within the clinical area of responsibility.
To deputise for the unit Matron in their absence, attending appropriate meetings, maintaining an organized and structured workforce.
To coordinate capacity and flow throughout the unit working closely with capacity teams and the emergency 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 registrant
- Practice Assessor or equivalent
- Up to date with mandatory training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate considerable clinical experience post preceptorship at Band 5
- Recent experience of supervising, assessing and supporting students and bands 2-4
- Recent experience of supporting nursing staff in the high dependency unit
- Recent experience as a nurse in charge within paediatrics
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Clinical Audit
- Experience of change management
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of preregistration education
- Completion of High Dependency Unit competency
- Ability to support staff working in HDU
- Excellent time management skills
- Completion of Nurse in Charge competency
- Ability to support staff to complete their nurse in charge competency
- Highly motivated with a positive attitude
- Ability to dealing effectively with a wide range of people
- Flexible and aware of professional responsibility and accountability
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the NHS
- Presentation skills
- Facilitating simulation
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between all Trust sites if required
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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▶️ Associate Practice Development Nurse - Paediatrics
🖊️ Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
📍 Frimley