Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 Month FTC from Sep 2025)
- Hours
- Part time - 34.5 hours per week (Worked as 11.5 hour shifts in a pattern of 2,3,2,3 over 4 weeks)
- Job ref
- 390-WAC-BA-7322
- Employer
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Basildon
- Town
- Basildon
- Salary
- £27,485 Per Annum Pro Rata for Part Time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Practitioner - Paediatrics
Band 4
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.
Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.
We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.
Job overview
Have you got experience with children and hold an NNEB or NVQ level 3 equivalent qualification , are you looking for a new challenge? Come and join our team at Basildon Hospital Paediatrics as a Band 4 Associate Practitioner .
The Band 4 Associate Practitioner is an exciting role, you will be taught vital skills such as care of a tracheostomy tube, venipuncture, cannulation, NG feeding and tube placement and much more.
You will work along side the multi-disciplinary team in the delivery of high standards of care to children and young people who present with medical and complex needs.
Please be aware this role may close early due to number of applications.
No VISA sponsorship available for this role
Please note this post is a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract ending Aug 2026.
Main duties of the job
If successful you will support and training will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for specified children and young people in hospital, according to their individual needs and as part of a care plan and ensure that the care is fully documented.
You will work with the team flexibly across the children's unit to create a caring and safe environment for children, young people and their families.
You will learn how to assess and recognise clinical deterioration in patients and report to the nurse/doctor in charge of their care by means of monitoring and recording the patient’s condition, using the following means, following teaching and assessment of competence.
Provide and deliver care with skills applicable to our patient case load.
Work alongside the multi-disciplinary team in the delivery of high standards of specific care, maintaining cleanliness/asepsis, meeting the nutritional needs of patients and undertaking a range of skills to nurse care activities identified as appropriate by the senior nursing staff and within a defined competency framework.
Independently perform invasive and non-invasive minor procedures at an advanced level.
You will provide a holistic, child and family centred care
Working for our organisation
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Are you looking for an exciting Associate Practitioner role within Paediatrics using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you?
For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.
We look forward to your application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Associate Practitioner course or equivalent NVQ level3/NNEB
- care certificate
- GCSE Maths and English Level 4 or above or equivalent
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people and families
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people in a healthcare setting
Communication skills
Essential criteria
- Effective oral and legible writing skills
Personal and people development
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a team member
- Willing and able to learn new skills/commitment to personal learning and development
Physical requirments
Essential criteria
- Able to work 11.5 hour shifts, days and nights. Able to work on feet for long periods
- Flexible/able to meet hours and demands of service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amie Cole
- Job title
- Senior Sister Paediatrics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01268524900
- Additional information
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