Paediatric Staff Nurse (Outpatients) | Barts Health NHS Trust

Working as a Staff Nurse in the outpatient's department. You will assess, plan, deliver and evaluate high standards of nursing care. You will work within a small team, supervising and directing junior staff. The role involves liaising with clinicians from a wide variety of specialties, including diabetes, asthma, allergy ophthalmology and neonatal., · Plan, assess, implement and evaluate programmes of care for individual patients and to supervise junior staff in this activity.

· Ensure an ongoing welcoming, caring and safe environment is provided for all patients and their families.

· Develop and maintain clinical skills and knowledge necessary to provide holistic, evidence based nursing care.

· Carry out observations, investigations and treatments as required.

To provide effective family centered nursing care to patients and their families.
Ensure that evidence based practice is performed at all times, taking
responsibility for updating own knowledge and skill in line with Trust policies andprocedures and NMC Code .
For newly qualified band 5 nurses, it will be an important step in consolidating practice and completing all relevant clinical competencies, receiving adequate support form colleagues.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

The children's outpatient's department is a dynamic friendly paediatric department at Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone. We serve a diverse population and care for children and young people admitted with acute nursing and medical needs aged 0-18 years.

We are a small friendly and welcoming team.

We are located at Whipps cross hospital, Leytonstone, London E11 1NR.

This is a full time post, 37.5 hrs per week.

The service is open from 08.30- 17.30