Band 5 - Staff Nurse, UTC Children's Emergency Department

Band 5 - Staff Nurse, UTC Children's Emergency Department

Main area: UTC CED Grade:
Band 5

Contract:

Permanent

Hours:

23 hours per week | Part time | Flexible working

Job
-D-10922-RA
Salary: £33,677 - £40,996 per annum (pro rata) with HCA
Closing date: 05/08/2026 23:59

We are relaunching our Urgent Treatment Centre at Watford Hospital in partnership with our Emergency Department, creating a more integrated and responsive model of urgent and emergency care. We are expanding our Children’s Emergency Department team and are looking for motivated, compassionate Band 5 Staff Nurses.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of urgent paediatric care at West Herts.

• Provide safe, timely, family‑centred nursing care
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for children with a wide range of acute presentations
• Support improvements that enhance patient flow and experience across CED and the UTC
• Work closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure effective clinical decision‑making
• Contribute to innovative practice and new ways of working within paediatric urgent and emergency care
• Help maintain a positive, calm and supportive environment for children, young people, families and colleagues

With a new hospital planned for Watford, ongoing updates to theatres at St Albans City Hospital and plans for a neighbourhood healthcare centre in Hemel Hempstead, this is an exciting time to join us.

Staff wellbeing and development are a priority, as is the role of innovation in improving clinical care, outcomes and patient experience.

Our vision is excellent patient care together and our values are to be empowered, compassionate, professional and inclusive.

If you are a Service Leaver, Veteran, Military Reserve, Cadet Force Adult Volunteer, or partner/spouse of those serving, please tick "Member of the Armed Forces Community" on the application form.

• RSCN/RN (CHILD) or equivalent
• Good command of written and spoken English
• Evidence of professional development
• Knowledge of handling complaints and clinical incidents
• Have undertaken PILS/APLs
• Knowledge of leadership

• Child protection issues
• Current research and developments within paediatric nursing
• Equality and diversity awareness
• Basic knowledge of computers
• Philosophy of paediatric care & paediatric A&E
• Handling complaints and clinical incidents
• PILS/APLs and leadership knowledge

• Experience working in an acute paediatric setting (placement experience accepted)

• Excellent paediatric clinical skills
• Relevant specialist skills and abilities for the department
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Problem solving and initiative to change
• Collaboration across professional teams and organisational boundaries
• Prioritisation and administration of IV drugs
• Administration of medication under patient group directives
• Area of specialist interest
• Experience of research and audit
• Experience of change management and problem solving
• Effective teaching, training and preceptorship skills

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to a core catchment population of approximately half a million people in west Hertfordshire and surrounding areas.

As an employer of nearly 6,000 people the Trust is one of the biggest employers in the area and sees nearly a million patients each year.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.