Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 470-8357880-TSW
- Employer
- Isle of Wight NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Marys Hospital
- Town
- Newport
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/10/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 02/11/2026
Employer heading
Paediatric Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
Paediatric Staff Nurse
Band 5 (£32,073 - £39,043 pro rata, per annum)
37.5 hours per week (Full Time) - 2 Posts Available
We are recruiting for two full-time Paediatric Staff Nurses who wish to join #TeamIOWNHS. If you are a caring, compassionate and motivated registered children's nurse, we would love to hear from you.
As a Paediatric Staff Nurse, you will play a key role in providing high-quality, family-centred care to children and young people across a variety of clinical settings. Working as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will be committed to delivering safe, effective and compassionate care while ensuring the best possible experience for patients and their families.
The successful candidates will work 37.5 hours per week, participating in a full range of shift patterns including long days, nights, weekends and weekdays to meet the needs of the service.
At the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, we are committed to our vision of "great people, great place" and are looking for individuals who share our passion for delivering outstanding care and continuously improving services for our local community.
We offer a supportive working environment, excellent development opportunities and the chance to be part of a dedicated team focused on achieving the very best outcomes for children, young people and their families.
If you are passionate about paediatric nursing and would like to make a real difference, we would be delighted to receive your application.
Main duties of the job
The main ward duties will include but are not limited to:
- Assessing
- Planning
- Implementing care
- Evaluating care
- Acting as a supervisor to students and providing family-centred care
- Working as part of the MDT
- Possessing excellent communication skills
- Carrying out nursing procedures
To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
Working for our organisation
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust serves a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.
Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an on-site day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire the Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem of the south coast off England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The Island offers an amazing coast line with beautiful countryside, year round events, festivals and award winning attractions.
Our 2024-2029 'Working Together, Improving Together' strategy sets out our objectives for the next 5 years, setting the framework for our collaboration to deliver our vision of working together to deliver excellence in care for our patients and communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Attached you will find the person specification document for staff nurse role, this will provide more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.
We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN/RSCN/ RN child with current NMC registration
- Good basic education including use of English and Maths
- Basic IT skills
- Evidenced based and experience of reflective practice
- NHS experience in service working with children and young people
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development, Child Protection issues,
- Principles underlying confidentiality and information sharing
Desirable criteria
- Effective team working within a multi-agency framework.
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Physically capable of performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post holder e.g. manual handling of patients
Desirable criteria
- Attend annual update and complete e-learning modules, as required in relation to manual handling
- Able to physically perform all aspects role and responsibilities
Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Able to work autonomously in stressful situations
- Boundary keeping
- Able to use initiative to cope in a variety of situations
- Good time management skills
- Ability to maintain effectiveness under pressure
- Able to work as part of a team
- Act in ways that support equality and diversity
Desirable criteria
- Ability to prioritise work and complete within deadlines
- Support equality and value diversity
Abilities
Essential criteria
- Be willing to take part in training and development opportunities
- Able to be flexible in relation to service demands
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of safeguarding ethos, and be confident to express concerns to more senior staff, should they arise
- Ability to adapt to change within working situation
- Client engagement
- Ability to utilise clinical assessment skills and tools effectively
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Communicates with a limited range of people on day-to-day matters
- Able to demonstrate a high level of understanding of confidentiality
- Positive and proactive attitude towards the client/patient group and professional colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Communicate with a range of people on a range of matters
- Able to reflect on and address; barriers to communication; provide feedback to others on their communication at appropriate times; keep accurate and complete records of activities and communications consistent with guidelines, policies and procedures, having received the appropriate training
- Ability to practice in a variety of clinical settings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Murphy
- Job title
- Ward Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01983 534691
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