Job summary
Employer heading
Staff Nurse
Band 5
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
The Children's Day Care Unit has a vacancy for a Band 5 Nurse to make a positive contribution to the care of babies, children and young people up to the age of 16 years who are undergoing a variety of day case procedures.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
There would be an expectation for the successful candidate to play an active role in the pre assessment service for all children undergoing surgery. We are looking for a suitable applicant who has had experience working on a general paediatric ward/ED.
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic person, who is a good team player with excellent communication skills to help us provide high quality care for our local communities.
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
To assist senior nursing staff in the management of the unit, maintaining standards of nursing practice and to promote the philosophy of child and family centred care.
The successful candidate will complete a 3 month rotation on the general paediatric ward. (Children’s Inpatient Ward)
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Occupational Health and CRB Clearance.
- Part 15 on register
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship
Experience
Essential criteria
- RN (Child) and appropriate experience.
- Functioning at diploma level Basic Life Support.
Desirable criteria
- Post-registration experience
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
- Susy Logan/Wendy Vidler
- Job title
- Ward Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 333 3142
- Additional information
Please contact me on the email above if you would like to arrange a visit or if you have any queries.
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