Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Intensive Care
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 196-NM11545
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Evelina Children Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £34,089 - £41,498 p.a inc HCA (pro rata for part timers)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Open Day May 2nd 24 - Evelina Paediatric Critical Care/Intensive Care
Band 5
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Open Day 2nd May - Paediatric Critical Care, and Intensive Care at Evelina London at both Royal Brompton Hospital Site and Evelina Children's Hospital.
We are welcoming newly qualified and experienced nurses to join our exciting open day which will include the chance to tour the unit, simulation demonstrations, talks from our multidisciplinary team and the chance to meet our staff and talk about how you can start or progress your career with us.
Evelina Children's Hospital Site 2nd May 10:30 - 13:30
Royal Brompton Site 2nd May 14:30 - 17:00
Evelina Children's Hospital critical care is one of the largest units in the UK, with a 20 bedded level 3 intensive care unit on Forest floor and a 6 bedded Critical Care unit on Sky floor.
The Royal Brompton Hospital PICU is an established 16 bedded unit within the new Evelina Cardio-Respiratory and Intensive Care directorate.
We offer a well-established, dynamic multi-professional team with a wealth of experience. There are job opportunities across paediatric critical care, on our PICU, or PCCU units, or have an option to work across both. We offer a fully supportive programme of induction and training, to work within the critical care environment.
The poster for the event is attached with the documents of this job, please use the QR code to book on or use the following link
Main duties of the job
Our nurses have the opportunity to gain a wide variety of experience caring for children requiring medical and surgical management, including those undergoing complex cardiac, spinal, ENT and airway surgery, some of whom require the joint care of the many specialist services within Evelina London.
Critical care nursing has a vast range of opportunity for development, including courses in critical care, which lead to the opportunity to develop skills in ECMO, renal replacement therapy and retrieval.
If you have what it takes to be an amazing Evelina Nurse, and have the appetite to join a forward thinking, positive environment, where aspiration and innovation are encouraged, we want you to join us.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation
At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important life is, and how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance of responsibilities in and out of work. We are committed to supporting flexible working; we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are committed to supporting professional development, and have excellent training and educational offerings. Recognising that looking after babies, children and young people is incredibly rewarding, but can also bring challenge we offer amazing resources to help support our staff’s emotional wellbeing and resilience.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for full details of duties and responsibilities.
- Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical areas, ensuring that high quality, current evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, implementation, interventions and evaluations for patients is provided from admission through to discharge.
- Will be responsible for the application of knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
- To act as advocate for patients within the area, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
- To ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
- Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
- Will advise on the promotion of health and the prevention of illness.
- Recognise the significance of observations made, and use them to develop and initiate nursing assessments and devise a plan of care.
- Carry out those activities necessary to conduct a comprehensive assessment of a person’s nursing requirements.
- Will ensure that all patients will have a discharge plan that is safe and appropriate for their needs.
- Carry out nursing procedures and treatments, checking on and maintaining the highest possible standards.
- Work alongside the multi-disciplinary team to ascertain treatments and advise on nursing priorities.
- Take a clear and concise history from patients by assessing their health and wellbeing and complete documentation ensuring that all entries are accurate and legible and that all information systems are maintained.
- Undertake prescribed physical observations as follows: blood pressure, temperature, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height, and report exceptions appropriates.
- Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Child Nurse or NMC Registered Adult nurse with ICU experience
Desirable criteria
- Relevant qualifications required or course to area
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working on own and in a team
- Experience of working in the relevant area
- Experiencing of co-ordinating a shift
- Completion of preceptorship
- Experience of administering intravenous drug therapy
- Supervision of junior staff
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in other nursing fields
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
Essential criteria
- Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate programmes of care
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
- Knowledge of Evidence Based Practice
- Competent in basic life support
- Ability to administer prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products
- Able to work as an effective team member
- Able to prioritise & meet deadlines
- Able to manage difficult situations
- Uses own initiative and is able to take decisions
- An understanding of Audit and Research Based Nursing Practice
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Knowledge of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance & a commitment to clinical supervision
- Knowledge of the individual’s responsibility towards health & safety
Desirable criteria
- IT skills Awareness of the structure and organisation of the NHS
Additional Information
Essential criteria
- The ability to undertake reflective thinking on own practice
- Flexible and positive approach to work
- Manual handling of patients, using lifting aids
- Able and willing to work flexible shift patterns, internal rotation to day and night duty and unsocial hours, according to service needs
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
- Helen Reynolds
- Job title
- Sky PCCU Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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