Bank Paediatric HDU Senior Staff Nurse

Tiger Safari Ward, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich Women's, Children and Sexual Health Directorate.

We have an exciting and challenging opportunity for a dynamic and innovative Band 5 or existing

Band 6 with excellent clinical skills to join our HDU team on Tiger Safari Ward at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

To provide high quality care to children requiring Level 2 and Level 1 critical care interventions,including children who are long term trache or non invasively ventilated, those on acute NIV andHFNC, children with DKA, and those on opiate infusions

To directly oversee HDU trained HCAs who are providing 1:1 HDU care on the ward.

To assist paediatric, anaesthetic and STRS teams in caring for and optimising children who needretrieval for uplift to PICU care.

To act as a mentor, teaching and supervising junior staff including band 5 nurses, student nurses and HDU trained health care support workers.

Opportunities to:

Contribute to HDU service development including fortnightly MDT meetings

Assist in facilitating simulation

Cascade and contribute to MDT training in areas such as tracheostomy management and ventilation

Complete train the trainer courses and contribute to parent competencies intracheostomy care and LTVAttend STRS and STPN networking and training events

Our HDU service consists of 4 commissioned Level 2 respiratory beds, as well as Level 1 HDUbeds, on our general children's inpatient ward, providing high quality care for children and young people up to the age of 16 years requiring high dependency care. This includes long termventilation and acute NIV. We are a busy, high acuity unit, with a complex population of childrenpresenting with a wide variety of pathology.

JOB SUMMARY:

Senior Staff Nurse6

Clinical Nurse Manager Head of Nursing Childrens Services The post holder must have previous experience of caring for patients requiring High dependency care and be competent in long termventilation and tracheostomies. To provide high quality, effective, individualised care to all children, byassessing care needs and developing, implementing and evaluatingthem without supervision.

To assist the Clinical Nurse Manager and/or Matron in leading the nursing team and deputise in their absence.

To monitor standards of nursing care and take appropriate action to maintain and improve them.

To utilise a variety of strategies to communicate effectively with children, families, the multi-disciplinary team, other departments within the trust and pertinent agencies outside the organisation.

To respond to childrens and families concerns as they arise and takeremedial action as required.

To act as a mentor, teaching and supervising junior staff includingstudent nurses and health care support workers.

• experience, ability to rapidly
• triage and prioritise care.
• Ability to reassure parents and
• Effective verbal and written
• Good problem solving abilities
• Ability to develop own and
• others clinical skills and widen
• theoretical knowledge
• Understanding of the care
• needs of the family.
• Developed teaching skills
• Be able to work under pressure
• and prioritise care
• Willingness to develop teaching skills, formally and informally

• 2 years experience of working in a an Emergency Department Enviroment
• PILS
• EPLS
• APLS

• RN Child branch/RSCN
• Diploma/Degree

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.