Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Department
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-RF10113-G
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Lewisham
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £32,306 - £39,027 per annum plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/08/2022 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Staff Nurse - Children's Emergency Department
NHS AfC: Band 6
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.
With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
The Trust has 7,500 staff and we have recently invested in our workforce to grow our establishment across a number of key services. In 2020 we won a London NHS Parliamentary Award in recognition of a wide range of initiatives to make the organisation a great place to work. We are accredited as a flexible working employer offering a number of flexible working options for staff. We are also accredited as a London Living Wage employer for our substantive, bank and contractors.
Job overview
Senior Staff Nurse
RSCN/RN [Child Branch]
Band 6
Full Time 37.5 hrs per week
Children’s Emergency Department, Lewisham
Children and Young People
An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a dynamic individual with excellent clinical skills and ED experience to enhance their skills as a band 6 in ED.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate would take charge in the busy ED on a shift by shift basis and also be expected to work streaming/TW shifts to enhance the skill mix at triage.
As a Band 6 nurse you will be responsible for the day to day flow of the department by ensuring the standards of care are met for children and their family / carers whilst in the emergency department, including delegation and deployment of the nursing team in the absence of a band 7.
Working for our organisation
You will be responsible for managing the shift ensuring the safety of both patients and their families and the nursing team, teaching both nursing students and qualified nurses, escalation of concerns as per department policy and working towards targets such as the 4 hour breach. Responsibilities also include liaising with the multidisciplinary team and providing leadership to nursing colleagues. You will be expected to have excellent clinical and communication skills.
The successful candidate will be able to work all shifts.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a registered children’s nurse the post holder will provide leadership in care to children, young people and their families in the
emergency department
The post holder will be accountable and responsible for providing a high standard of child and family focused care.
To carry out care without direct supervision as part of the Emergency Department team and supervise juniors delivering care.
To communicate effectively with the multidisciplinary team.
Contribute towards the effective running of the department including patient safe and timely care.
Person specification
Educational & Training
Essential criteria
- • RN Child branch/ RSCN
Desirable criteria
- • Diploma/Degree
Experience / Education
Essential criteria
- • Substantial appropriate post registration experience
- • 2 years’ experience of working in an Emergency department environment
- • Safeguarding qualification
- • PILS
Desirable criteria
- • EPLS
- • Mentorship.
- • APLS
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
- Clare Gray
- Job title
- Sister
- Email address
- claregray1@nhs.net
- Telephone number
- 02083333138
- Additional information
Temi Olaniran t.olaniran@nhs.net
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