Pediatric Nurse Specialist

4 weeks ago


Pembury, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time
Job Overview

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is committed to providing family-centred care, encouraging parents to participate in their child's care needs. Our paediatric services include acute general medicine, elective and non-elective surgery, ambulatory care, and children's outpatients' services.

Main Duties

As an experienced nurse, you will lead a team of motivated staff, assessing care needs, implementing and evaluating programmes of care for children and their families. You will work closely with the Ward Manager, Consultants, and Nurse Specialists to ensure high-quality patient care.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and lead a team of skilled staff
  • Assess care needs and implement programmes of care
  • Work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure quality patient care
  • Develop link nurse roles, care pathways, and policies
  • Be clinically credible in delivering general and specialist paediatric services
  • Support the Ward Manager in ensuring an effective workforce
  • Take an active role in assessing and supporting patient experience
Working for Our Organisation

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England, providing a range of general hospital services and specialist care to around 600,000 people. We have a team of over 8,000 staff and provide specialist cancer services to 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

  • RSCN/RN Child qualification
  • EPLS/APLS course
  • Mentor/assessor qualification
  • 1st level degree or working towards

Desirable Criteria

  • ACP qualification
  • HDU post registrations course or equivalent experience
  • Simulation experience
  • EPLS instructor qualification

Experience

  • Extensive experience in a PICU or HDU Level 2
  • Previous experience at Band 5 or equivalent

Knowledge

  • Extensive knowledge of paediatric speciality
  • Knowledge of current clinical evidence-based practice
  • Knowledge of current changes in NHS and Social Services
  • Knowledge of current professional issues relating to nursing
  • Understanding of equal opportunities and patient confidentiality

Skills

  • Demonstrable organisational and clinical skills
  • Ability to support and manage a caseload of patients
  • Ability to organise and deliver good standards of research-based clinical nursing care
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Inter-personal and counselling skills


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