Registered Children’s NurseNHS

Job summary

There has never been a more exciting time to come and join the vibrant Jenny Lind Children's Hospital team at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. With our recently approved aspirational Children's Strategy and being one of the largest Children's units in the Eastern Region, we are continually seeking to improve and expand our existing services. We are very proud of our Hospital's PRIDE values which underpin our improvement strategy. Everyone who works here plays an important role in our journey to outstanding. We have a wide variety of nursing staff from our paediatric specialist nursing and day ward team to our nurses working in children's urgent and emergency care and in our level 2 HDU and inpatient areas.

Main duties of the job

Our Jenny Lind Children's Hospital incorporates Children's Inpatient, Ambulatory, Emergency, Neonatal and Outpatient care. We treat children and young people across a broad range of specialties including Paediatric Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, ENT, plastics and much more. We also have a dedicated Surgical and medical HDU. Our collaborative team care for children living in Norfolk and for those accessing specialist treatments across the Eastern Region. We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled.

We currently have positions within Buxton, our paediatric inpatient ward with 33 inpatient beds including a 6 bedded level 2 high dependency unit, which cares for children from all medical and surgical specialities from birth to 16 years.

We cross work between departments when necessary to improve our skills and form part of the larger Jenny Lind Children's Hospital team. As part of your role, you will be working in a team of Nurses, Doctors, Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioners, Healthcare Assistants and Play Specialists to provide high quality care for our patients.

Training opportunities include triage skills, advanced life support, ECG's, venipuncture and cannulation, blood gases and chemotherapy administration.

This is an advert for an experienced paediatric nurse so applicants to have or working towards their level 2 HDU qualification.

Job description

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.

About us

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics