Band 5 Paediatric Nurse
Client Name: Hillingdon Hospital
Role: Band 5 Paediatric Nurse
Rates: 18.01-31.30 P/H
Shifts: Flexible hours, with shifts available throughout the day, night and at weekends.
Benefits:
- Access to Care4Carers - our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care.
- Competitive pay rates
- First sight of agency nursing shifts across multiple trusts
- Next-day payroll
- Block bookings in your favourite locations
- Excellent support from your own dedicated consultant
- Revalidation support
- 24/7/365 service - we're available when you need us
Development and opportunities
The Hillingdon Hospital has created an environment where staff can work to the highest standards and communicate openly in an organisation that respects people's views and values individuals and teams. Every team member is enabled to fulfil their potential, give their best at work.
A business with a future
As a Paediatric Nurse with access to the very best facilities at Hillingdon Hospital you can complete care plans, perform assessments, and make referrals to the wider multi-disciplinary team confidently.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as a Band 5 Paediatric Nurse you will have:
- quick thinking abilities
- patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations
- excellent attention to detail
- a methodical approach to tasks
- excellent timekeeping
- the ability to work well and under pressure
- empathy and understanding
- a flexible attitude
- a desire to learn and improve
- active listening skills
- the ability to use a computer competently
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As a Band 5 Paediatric Nurse with Hillingdon Hospital, you will:
- Provide the highest standard of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care as required within the Paediatric department.
- Utilise a variety of strategies to communicate effectively with the children and their family/carers, the multidisciplinary team, other departments within the Trust and pertinent agencies outside the organisation.
- Have a good general understanding and knowledge base of children's health needs.
- Adhere to all Organisational polices and demonstrate the Trust promises, vision and strategy as a professional registrant.
- Take blood/fit a canula.
- Undertake patient observations (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiration rate and oxygen level) as patient need dictates throughout the shift.
- Write care plans, perform assessments, and make referrals.
- Manage admissions and discharges to and from the ward.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
- Be a registered nurse.
- Up to date paediatric and adult basic life support.
- At least 2 years post-graduate experience.
- 6 months recent NHS paediatric experience within the last 3 years.
- You will need to pass an enhanced background check.
Culture and inclusion
If you are a Band 5 Paediatric Nurse passionate about providing the very best in young patient care, apply today and start your career with Hillingdon Hospital.
Development and opportunities
Hillingdon Hospital is a fantastic foundation upon which to build a long and rewarding career. If this is the chance you have been waiting for, don't let it pass you by; contact us today.