Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse - Paediatric A&E | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced Paediatric Nurse with a passion for delivering excellent care? We have an opportunity for Senior Staff Nurses/ Junior Charge Nurses to join our dynamic and rapidly developing team at the North Middlesex University Hospital. We can offer you the opportunity to further develop your emergency care skills and achieve nationally recognized competencies in -line with emergency care standards. We have our own Paediatric A&E Practice Development Nurse and a robust and comprehensive continuing professional development plan for all our staff. We are committed to providing safe, evidence based care to our patients and we ensure this by maintaining our staff members educational needs. We offer APLS, EPLS, ATLS and TILS in-house, and most of our senior team are instructors for these courses. We offer a wealth of senior knowledge and experience. We have strong links with three leading London universities; Middlesex University, London South Bank University and City University and believe that in developing our staff we ensure the continued development of our department. We are looking for outstanding individuals who embody our Trust Values of being caring, fair and open to join our wonderful team.

• To take responsibility for managing and coordinating the department in the absence of more senior staff and escalate where appropriate.
• To participate in the teaching and supervision of junior staff and student nurses as required, helping to lead and manage them and their development.
• To be a safe and effective practitioner able to provide patients and relatives with high quality nursing care.
• To act as a positive role model to junior staff members.
• To provide competent clinical skills to patients within your scope of practice being aware of personal limitations and scope of competence.
• To work within both the nursing and multi-disciplinary teams to provide evidence based, holistic care to a wide group of patients.
• To uphold the rules, policies, procedures and standards of North Middlesex Hospital NHS Foundation Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations.
• The post holder has a general duty of care for their own health, safety and well-being and that of work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital, in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.
• To observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.
• To be responsible, with management support, for their own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues., To deliver a high standard of evidence based care to a specified group of patients
• To adhere to NMC Code of Professional Conduct at all times.
• To be responsible for the nursing management of a group of patients.
• To be fully involved in the health education of patients and relatives, identifying each opportunity to promote a healthy lifestyle.
• To liaise effectively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in order to ensure that patients needs are met and that services are delivered in accordance with National Service Frameworks and agreed Clinical Care Guidelines.
• To promote the well-being of children and young people and safeguard them from actual or potential harm and report concerns under the Trust Safeguarding Children/Child Protection Procedures.
• To accurately identify those children and vulnerable adults at risk of abuse, referring to our in house safeguarding team as appropriate.
• To ensure that relevant information regarding the patients needs / condition are communicated to the MDT and that any instructions are acted upon.
• To be aware of the need to adhere to the Trusts policy on valuing equality and diversity in the workplace, which incorporates the patients / visitors and staff perspective.
• To have due regard for each patients cultural and religious beliefs and to respect each patients privacy, dignity, gender and sexuality.
• To acknowledge personal limitations in patient care and seek advice from senior staff members.
• To be involved with nursing audits/essence of care/observations of care.
• To report adverse incidents which occur in the department as per policy. To assist in the investigation of such incidences.
• To ensure contemporaneous record keeping at all times and in line with the Trust policy on documentation.
• Ensure clear and accurate written and verbal information is given at all times, including patient handovers.
• Participate in Trust and Care Group initiatives to develop nursing practice and support change.
• To have knowledge of the Trust Major Incident Plan and your own role within it.
Education and Research
• To be aware of current research and the possible implications for the department speciality.
• To update knowledge in the light of current research and practice.
• To act as a practice supervisor for student nurses/adaptation nurses/HCAs.
• To at as a preceptor/mentor to newly qualified staff.
• To actively participate in the training process by demonstrating and directly supervising and by negotiating learning contracts.
• To liaise with appropriate members of teaching staff, link lecturer/lecturer practitioner.
Management
• To act as a role model at all time
• To exercise leadership where appropriate
• To take all possible steps to safeguard the welfare and safety of all staff
• To anticipate day to day staffing problems and take appropriate action in conjunction with the team leader, sister/charge nurse and head of nursing, to ensure good standards of care for the patient are maintained at all times.
• To give support and advice to junior ward staff on both clinical and administrative problems.
• To ensure effective admission/discharge of patients whilst liaising with the flow coordinator/bed manage.
• To keep the ward sister/charge nurse informed of significant changes in the day to day situation in the department.
• To act as a liaison within the multi-disciplinary team to ensure optimum, timely patient care.
• To observe a general duty of are for the health, safety and wellbeing of self, work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital, in addition to any specific risk management associated with this post.
This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will change over time and this description will be subject to review in consultation with the post holder.

The North Middlesex University Hospital, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest. In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children's community services in Enfield. In January 2025 we joined the Royal Free group: it is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities. North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICSs, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone statutory bodies, we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.