Job summary
Employer heading
Paediatric ED Senior Sister
Band 7
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
An opportunity now exists for current band 6 or 7 paediatric staff nurses with extensive experience to extend their leadership skills in a Children’s ED environment working alongside a varied nursing workforce, Paediatric Emergency Consultants, ENP’s and GP’s.
The successful candidates would be working alongside four other paediatric band 7’s, two of which are primarily responsible for the management of the nursing workforce and department.
These posts are band 7’s aimed at providing senior experience within the nursing establishment to cover the seven day period and LD/Nights shift patterns, leading shifts and managing patient pathways improving clinical care and patient experience. Applicants must like a challenge, respond well to the demands of a busy department, have good communication skills and enjoy working at a fast pace in a multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder has shared 24 hour responsibility for the Children’s Accident and Emergency Department.
Act as an expert clinical practitioner and role model within all areas of children’s emergency nursing
The development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, and the setting of standards of care of the children and their family / carers.
This responsibility includes liaising with the multidisciplinary team and providing leadership to nursing colleagues.
Take responsibility in managing and closing down clinical incidences for the department
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder has shared 24-hour responsibility for the Children’s Accident and Emergency Department.
Act as an expert clinical practitioner and role model within all areas of children’s emergency nursing
The development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, and the setting of standards of care of the children and their family / carers.
This responsibility includes liaising with the multidisciplinary team and providing leadership to nursing colleagues.
The post holder is also expected to manage the deployment and supervision of staff, participate in the selection and performance review of nursing staff and teach both student and qualified nurses.
Take responsibility in managing and closing down clinical incidences for the department.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- RN Child / RSCN
- Specialist A&E module at degree level or equivalent.
- Studying to degree level in Nursing
- Evidence of competency in a range of expanded roles (wound closure, PGD, POP,
- Act as mentor & sign off mentor
Desirable criteria
- Degree
- Able to cannulate & venepuncture.
- APLS Provider
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience since qualifying.
- Significant experience of working with children in an Emergency department within the last 2 years.
- Ability to document legibly and Precisely
- Previous management & leadership experience.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Research / clinical trials.
- Experience in working autonomously.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Crome
- Job title
- Matron for Children's Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07503194186
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