Deputy Sister - Children's PCCU

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Nottingham Children's Hospital is set within the vibrant city of Nottingham known for its many historical sites. The Children's Hospital is housed within the Queen's Medical Centre campus and has 104 inpatient beds across 8 inpatient wards covering all specialities.

We are a major trauma centre, and the Children's Critical Care Unit works closely with the Emergency Department in providing front line care for trauma patients. Nottingham Children's Hospital Critical Care provides an essential service for Neurology/Neurosurgical; Spinal/Orthopaedic; Oncology/Haematology; Respiratory; General Surgery and Rheumatology. The Hospital is also a provider of paediatric renal services for the region, which allows staff on the unit to be actively involved with kidney transplants and haemofiltration.

This is a exciting time to join Nottingham Children's Hospital as we became the first Children's Hospital in Europe to achieve pathway to excellence accreditation in 2020. This makes Nottingham Children's Hospital a special place to work. Not only does this show that we provide excellent care to patients and family's it is also recognition that we have fantastic teams, leadership at all levels and a huge array of development opportunities. Our staff are proud to work at Nottingham Children's Hospital and all embrace the TEAM NUH ethos which we would love you to be part of.

As a Unit we are actively involved in national research trials which are supported by a research team within the Trust.

For staff who are currently on the critical care course, offer can be made pending results with an agreed delayed start date.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC registered nurse
• APLS/EPALS or place booked
• Paediatric Critical Care Course PCCCS accredited or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• RN Child Branch

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant post registration experience
• Supervision and precetorship of staff/students
• Evidence of link role/project work
• Experience of providing feedback
• Ability to manage team coordinate and escalate appropriately
• Experience within speciality level 2 and level 3 critical care

Desirable criteria

• Supported role development initiatives through evidence based practice council
• Demonstrate evidence of supporting change in practice
• Experience in audit or research

Skills

Essential criteria

• Efficiently and effectively convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner to patients, relative/carers and staff
• Demonstration of team working and ability to work within a team
• An advocate for patients and junior colleagues
• Ability to identify own learning needs and needs of junior staff

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrate evidence of providing formal teaching sessions
• Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of local and national initiatives and the possible impact on nursing

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

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