About this role
Job summary
**1x Permanent 30 hours, 2x Fixed Term/Secondment Opportunities (37.5 hours until 27/06/3037 & 36 hours until 05/08/2027)**
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.
This is an advert for an experienced paediatric nurse so applicants to have or working towards their level 2 HDU qualification.
Training opportunities include triage skills, advanced life support, ECG's, venipuncture and cannulation, blood gases and chemotherapy administration.
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 also have a position within our Children's Assessment Unit. CAU has 22 beds, including side rooms and an enhanced care bay and operates 24 hours a day around the year. We care for children who are acutely unwell, and our aim is to assess and plan effective care interventions to support their recovery.
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.
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
Job description Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description for full details of the role and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.
Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.
If you are considering applying for this post on a secondment basis, please discuss with your Line Manager prior to applying to ascertain whether this could be supported
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC Register ENB 199 or Paediatric HDU or ITU module or equivalent Mentorship preparation programme (or required to complete once in post) if applicable to clinical area
Experience Desirable
Knowledge/experience of relevant speciality
Skills Essential
Competency in clinical skills including enhanced practice relevant to the level of experience and clinical area
Attitude, aptitude Essential
Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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.
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Employer details Employer name Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Address Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Norwich
NR4 7UY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.nnuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)