Job Description:
Provide excellent nursing care, supervise and mentor Student Nurses and Health Care Assistants, act as an advocate for children and family, and participate in ward management.
Responsibilities:
- Complete Competencies: Ensure high standards of clinical care through relevant competency completion and appraisal.
- Patient Care: Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care using research findings; maintain personal contact with patients, ensuring dignity and privacy.
- Leadership and Management: Provide ward leadership, manage the ward without senior staff, and ensure safe staffing levels and adherence to policies.
- Effective Communication: Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills with the multidisciplinary team and patients, ensuring clarity and understanding.
- Nursing Procedures and Medication Management: Follow healthcare policies for nursing procedures, store, check, and administer drugs according to Trust Policy and NMC Standards.
- Accurate Records and Confidentiality: Maintain timely and accurate nursing records, ensuring confidentiality is respected.
- Safe Environment: Maintain a clean and safe environment, follow Health and Safety, Clinical Risk, and Infection Control policies, and manage stock levels effectively.
- Inter-departmental Coordination: Coordinate admissions and discharges, communicate with other wards and departments, participate in meetings, audits, and research projects, and handle patient valuables according to Trust policies.
Skills:
- Registered Nurse for Children
- Computer literate
- Experience in assessment, planning, and evaluation of patient care
- Ability to work with and mentor junior staff
- Awareness of professional responsibilities
- Understanding of normal child development
Desirable:
- IV administration course
- Experience undertaking a small research project
- Understanding the effects of hospital admission on a child and the family