Associate Paediatric Practice Education Nurse

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Roles and responsibilities

• To be an expert practitioner, demonstrating advanced communication and nursing skills, using expert knowledge and decision-making skills in children's nursing.

• To support and develop junior staff, HCA's and students working within the department.

• To deliver nursing care to a high standard and be an effective role model.

• To assist in the safe, effective and efficient management of the department within allocated resources.

• To promote a progressive attitude to research and practice development in the continual improvement of patient care/services.

• To deputise for the Paediatric Practice Educator on occasion with activities directly related to the ward.

• To work alongside the Paediatric Practice Educator and Ward Managers to ensure the delivery of individualised programmes for induction and ongoing development of all staff in line with their Personal Development Plans (PDPs).

• To support the ward team to ensure that staff can make maximum use of the full range of Trust-wide learning opportunities.

• To uphold the Trust Values and to embed theses into the clinical practice of staff.

• To support the implementation of a West London Children's Healthcare wide nursing education strategy that links to the workforce strategy and the divisional strategic plan.
• To maintain clinical credibility you will be expected to work two clinical shifts per month.

Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Children's Nurse on NMC register
• Student assessor or mentorship qualification
• Relevant post-registration accredited clinical course
• BSc in children's nursing
• EPALS/APLS

Desirable criteria

• Willingness to work towards a teaching qualification or associate advance higher education fellowship
• Simulation debriefing qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable post registration experience in one of the following areas: Paediatric high dependency care Paediatric long term ventilation Paediatric respiratory care
• Experience of working as a band 6 leading a shift
• Experience of supervising and assessing student nurses/Precepting newly registered nurses
• Experience of precepting newly registered nurses

Desirable criteria

• Experience undertaking audits and delivering action plans to improve clinical practice
• Experience of excel and PowerPoint

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Competency in the management of central venous access devices
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to provide both verbal and written feedback to individuals
• Ability to work with indirect supervision managing own workload
• Demonstrable teaching and presentation skills
• Clinical facilitation skills to develop practice, motivate, support and develop the workforce's needs.
• Ability to develop individuals through mentorship/coaching/clinical supervision
• Awareness of current professional issues within children and young people's nursing
• Ability to work across the multi professional team and organisational boundaries
• Ability to problem solve and initiate change
• National Nursing Competencies - caring for babies, children and young people in hospital. Long term ventilation

Desirable criteria

• Ability to work full shift pattern including rotation, nights, twilight shifts, weekends & bank holidays

Important

• There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date, this will be due to a high volume of applications. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly (and your junk folder) as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.
• Some roles may require weekend shift working across multiple sites
• We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Right to work

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