Staff Nurse - Paediatric ICU

Job overview

When you join the team on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Addenbrooke's Hospital, you are rewarding yourself with opportunities unavailable to you in most areas. The only PICU covering the East of England, we look after children requiring a higher level of care than can be provided locally, across a range of medical and surgical specialities.

As well as being part of the Regional Trauma Centre, Children's Services at Addenbrooke's caters for a range of specialities including neurosurgery, oncology and plastic surgery, with our support. This results in a wide variety of patients across age-range and treatment.

Many children make their way to us via a specialist Children's Transport Service, including PaNDR (Paediatric and Neonatal Decision, support and Retrieval service), which operates out of Addenbrooke's, and with whom we work in partnership.

There is a comprehensive induction pathway for new staff, supported by our own Practice Development team, and further along you will be offered the chance to undertake the relevant courses, run in-house, for High Dependency and Intensive Care nursing. We have excellent facilities in which to practise your skills and support your development. Career progression is an expectation here.

Excitingly, planning for the new Cambridge Children's Hospital is well under way.

This Vacancy has a Cap of 50 Applicants

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for competently providing safe and effective care, without supervision, to critically ill children requiring high dependency nursing intervention, Level 1 Dependency, and care to the Level 2 and Level 3 Dependency patients under the supervision of a registered nurse who is qualified in specialty. They will assess care needs; plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care. They will participate in the supervision and teaching of unqualified and qualified staff, including students.

We have Our Trust values of Together - Safe, Kind, and Excellent to support the delivery of outstanding care. Our ethos of child centred care and multi-professional collaboration drives our service, alongside a commitment to family focused teamwork. We believe in supporting our patients, their families and our staff, and we offer a diverse range of dedicated psychosocial and clinical support services for all groups.

Previous PICU experience is not essential - if you believe that you can meet the demands of a challenging, skilful and ultimately rewarding job, please apply.

Informal contact welcomed.

Working for our organisation

Come Nurse with us...

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

Why choose CUH?

• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• • First level registration RSCN/RN(Child) (part 8 or 15) or First level registration in Adult Nursing (RN) and significant experience in paediatric nursing
• • Child Protection training

Desirable criteria

• • Advanced level child protection training
• • Evidence of continuing professional development
• • Relevant teaching and assessing course/ mentorship course/Qualification as Practice Supervisor/Assessor

Experience

Essential criteria

• • Experience of delivering evidenced based nursing care without supervision, to children in an acute hospital setting

Desirable criteria

• • Evidence of experience in high dependency or critical care areas
• • NHS Experience

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• • Awareness of professional issues
• • Evidence of up-to-date paediatric nursing skills and knowledge.

Desirable criteria

• • Current knowledge of research developments in paediatric nursing

Skills

Essential criteria

• • Competent to care for children and their families in a safe and effective manner without direct supervision
• • Advocate of paediatric nursing

Desirable criteria

• • Evidence of participation in research and audit projects

Additional Requirements

Essential criteria

• • To be willing to undertake training as Practice Supervisor/Assessor as required by your Line Manager.
• • The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind and excellent. This behaviour is outlined on the final page of this person specification.
• • Evidence of effective communication skills
• • Evidence of a forward-thinking work philosophy

Desirable criteria

• • Advanced computer skills

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 192.7KB)
• Information for Applicants - Completing Application (PDF, 224.4KB)