About this role
Job summary
Join our dedicated team as a Children's HDU Nurse and make a real difference. In this dynamic and rewarding role, you'll provide high-quality, compassionate care to acutely unwell children requiring close monitoring and specialised support.Working within a multidisciplinary team, you'll play a key part in delivering safe, effective, and family-centred care in a fast-paced, high-dependency environment. This is an opportunity to grow your clinical skills, contribute to service development, and support families during some of their most challenging time
Main duties of the job
Deliver safe, effective, and evidence-based nursing care to children requiring high dependency support.
Monitor, assess, and manage the care of acutely unwell children, including those with complex medical needs.
Use specialist equipment and clinical skills to provide continuous observation and intervention.
Work collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary team to develop and implement individualised care plans.
Act as a key point of contact for children and their families, offering support, information, and reassurance.
Recognise and respond promptly to changes in a child's condition, escalating concerns appropriately.
Safely administer medications and treatments in accordance with Trust policies and national guidelines.
Contribute to clinical documentation, audits, and service improvement initiatives.
Maintain high standards of infection prevention, patient safety, and safeguarding.
Support junior staff, students, and new team members through supervision, mentorship, and role modelling.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support.These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job description Job responsibilities
Registered Children's Nurse (RNC) with current NMC registration.
Post-registration experience in an acute paediatric setting, ideally with experience in high dependency or critical care.
Strong knowledge of paediatric assessment skills, early recognition of deterioration, and management of acutely unwell children.
Competence in clinical skills such as IV administration, airway management, and use of monitoring equipment (e.g. oxygen therapy, NG tubes, ECG monitoring).
Current certification in Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS) is essential; EPALS (European Paediatric Advanced Life Support) is essential.
Level 2 critical care qualification is essential
Ability to remain calm and focused in high-pressure situations, with excellent clinical judgement and decision-making skills.
A compassionate and child-centred approach, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to support children and families.
Commitment to ongoing professional development, including completion or willingness to work towards relevant HDU/paediatric critical care training.
Effective team working skills with a flexible, proactive, and positive attitude.
Understanding of safeguarding, infection prevention, and governance standards in paediatric care.
Teaching and assessing qualification
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address Pinderfields Hospital
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF1 4DG
Employer's website https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)