Paediatric Staff Nurse

A 12-month fixed-term post on the Child and Adolescent Unit at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, caring for children and young people with medical, surgical, oncology and mental health conditions. The role centres on nursing assessment and care planning, clinical advice to colleagues, and involving families in care. The unit has specialist roles in wellbeing, infant feeding and allergy, and offers training including high dependency and life support courses.

Fit depends on NMC registration as a children's nurse and a degree in children's nursing.

• Assess patients' nursing needs and plan, deliver and evaluate their care
• Provide clinical expertise, advice and guidance in a particular area of practice to improve the team's care
• Work with the multidisciplinary team and agencies to meet patients' needs
• Involve patients, relatives and carers in care, giving reassurance and support
• Prepare the clinical area for safe practice, including cleanliness, equipment and clearing away afterwards
• Escort and transfer patients as directed by the multidisciplinary team
• Recognise and respond to urgent and emergency situations
• Collect, collate and report information, keeping accurate patient records
• Take an active part in the leadership, education, development and supervision of the team

• Degree in children's nursing

• NMC registration as a children's nurse

• Willingness to undertake further training specific to the role

• Experience of working in a range of paediatric healthcare settings
• Experience of paediatric high dependency
• Experience of working with young people with mental health concerns

• Places on the High Dependency course, APLS/EPALS and clinical assessment modules
• Bespoke training programme for newly qualified, experienced and high dependency nurses
• Restorative clinical supervision from Professional Nurse Advocates