Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to come and join our friendly, passionate and dedicated paediatric Day Procedures Unit nursing team at East Surry Hospital. We are looking to recruit into our newly developed service within our paediatric services as part of our ongoing expansion and development projects. If you are interested in working with our CQC rated Outstanding service and making a difference to the lives of the children and young people we support, then come and join our team!

As a newly developed service, we have vacancies to expand our nursing workforce within this area.  We are keen to speak with paediatric registered nurses about their aspirations to develop a career in paediatrics and we are open and welcoming of agile working practices to enhance work life balance.

Main duties of the job

Our newly developed Day Procedures Unit incorporates all elective day surgery and planned day case admissions. Patient admissions vary across planned blood transfusions, medication infusions, complex investigations and elective surgery across multiple specialties (dental, ophthalmology, general surgery, ENT, orthopaedics). As such, nursing staff must be skilled, clinically competent and highly organized paediatric nurses who are able to safely and efficiently manage a high turnover of patients with complex care requirements.

Senior nursing staff will lead the team in the delivery of professional nursing care to patients ensuring the highest possible standards of care are received by patients and their carers. Responsible and accountable, for the assessment and planning of care for designated patients from admission to discharge. Utilises and integrates evidence into practice. Communicates effectively and efficiently with multiple professionals to support the continuity of care across multiple clinical areas. To assist the Ward Manager and deputise as appropriate in their absence. To act as an excellent clinical role model and team leader to all staff.

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
• We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
• Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation’s top priority
• Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey