Band 5 Staff Nurse Children’s Intensive Care Unit

Job Description

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.We are an NHS Trust of 12,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from Northwest London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.With our partners, Imperial College London, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.Band 5 Staff Nurse – Children’s Intensive Care UnitWe are looking for a Band 5 Nurse/newly Qualified Nurse to complement our existing nursing team and work within our dynamic and friendly Children’s Intensive Care Unit. The successful applicant will join a multidisciplinary team of skilled and highly motivated staff who provide high quality care to children with a variety of conditions including medical, surgical, trauma, orthopaedics, plastics and ENT. St Mary’s Hospital is a designated children’s and adult major trauma centre with a dedicated 24/7 children’s emergency department.Staff are supported by a thorough induction programme which is both classroom and ward based and includes supernumerary time to ensure staff are fully prepared for working in an intensive care environment. We also offer continuing educational and professional development from our education team. We are committed to ensuring that all staff have a positive work experience which enables and supports them to provide the best possible care for the children and families.About UsWe have undergone an exciting multi-million pound expansion and refurbishment of our Children’s Intensive Care it has seen our bed capacity almost double in capacity from eight to fifteen beds. Every year around 400 critically ill children are admitted to our unit. Around 30 per cent come from the local Northwest London catchment area; the remainder are transferred by Children’s Acute Transport Service.Our fifteen bedded Children’s Intensive Care Unit provides both intensive and high dependency care for children with a wide variety of different conditions and specialities. Some of these include specialist haematology/BMT, infectious diseases, respiratory, allergy, ENT, trauma and a broad range of medical and surgical diagnoses. We serve both our local population receiving patients through our A+E and wards as well as being a tertiary referral centre receiving patients from other NHS Trusts through a dedicated paediatric retrieval service.We take pride in our close working relationship with the Paediatric wards, Paediatric Emergency Department and Children’s Community Nursing Teams. We have a strong ethos of inter-professional team working.About youWe are looking for nurses who are committed to the delivery of compassionate high quality care. We strive to use the views of staff working in our service to improve our current and future service provision. For this post there are many varied learning and development opportunities. We promise that we will guide your development with a comprehensive programme. Your development will be tailored to meet your needs and the needs of the service. We are enthusiastic about education. You will have the opportunity to develop and enhance your skills in caring for children who are critically unwell.Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is an Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) and the largest trust in the country. Our mission is to provide world class healthcare for our patients, through excellence in research, education and training. Based at St Mary’s in the heart of Paddington, West London, which means we are easy to reach and have immediate access to all the capital has to offer. We are committed to safeguarding the children and young people in our care.If you feel that you are up to the challenges of this rewarding role then we welcome your application.We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may needFor further details / informal visits contact:Karen Downer PICU Senior Sister or emailJeremy Weber, PICU Modern Matron on or email