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 and contribute to the management of wards.
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:
Essential:
- 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 of the effects of hospital admission on a child and their family.