Paediatric Clinical Sister / Charge Nurse

To lead and co-ordinate the team to maintain and deliver a high standard of family centred care to all children, young people and their families in accordance with the ward philosophy.

To ensure high quality and cost-effective services at all time anddeputise ward manger in their absence.

Hold a Diploma/Degree in Children's Nursing.

Be a first level registered nurse with significant experience in paediatrics, including an extended period in an acute paediatric setting.

Possess relevant post basic education and experience, which should include significant period at Band 5.

Provide evidence of continuous personal and professional development.

Possess the aptitude and confidence for working within a rapidly changing environment.

Have excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

Have excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.

To provide clinical and professional leadership and support to all non-medical staff in the ward, ensuring that nursing practice is based on current and best evidence.

Take responsibility for own personal and professional development, maintaining clinical credibility and competence at all times.

Keep an up-to-date personal portfolio, in line with revalidation requirements in maintaining NMC registration.

Ensure that the wards philosophy is in line with the principles of clinical governance and that all staff understands its significance to practice.

In conjunction with the Ward Manager ensure that KPIs, and Infection Prevention standards are maintained each month.

To participate in the setting and maintaining of high standards of evidence-based nursing.

To supervise and evaluate work of all nursing staff.

Promote a child focused, family centred ward environment at all times.

Promote child and family involvement in care planning, ensuring parents and carers are kept informed of treatment and progress, together with any necessary family education, ensuring junior staff develop the necessary skills to do this. Implement a communication system to keep patients and their relatives/families informed of treatment and progress. Undertake audits at regular intervals to maintain standards of record keeping.

Provide clinical leadership for ward teams in order to facilitate a high standard of evidence based individualised nursing care from admission to discharge.

Provide clinical leadership for the care of all children and young people on the ward including surgical and CAMHS patients.

Supervises and monitors junior staff in developing the necessary skills to identify care priorities and address them in a pertinent and timely manner, seeking advice where appropriate.

Communicates and interacts with children, young people and their families and staff in a non-judgmental way, demonstrating mutual respect and trust utilising a variety of communication skills.

To ensure children, young people and their familys needs are met in a courteous, helpful and compassionate manner.

To liaise with other agencies and professionals to maintain good service provision.

Maintain effective relationships between the ward and the multi-disciplinary team.

Triage all emergency admissions.

Provide telephone advice for parents requesting information and support.

To maintain accurate and comprehensive records of patients care in line with the NMC code for record keeping.

Co-ordinate clinical activities within the unit and have responsibility for shift management.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

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Qualifications

Essential: - Registered Children's Nurse; - Diploma / Degree in Professional Nursing / Health Studies; - Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable: - EPALS / APLS Trained; - Mentorship and Assessing qualification

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