Registered Nurse - Children's Ward

Main area : Childrens Nurse Grade NHS AfC : Band 5

Contract : Permanent

Hours : Part time - 29 hours per week (Shifts including nights and weekends)

Job ref : 331-B11941224-A

Employer : University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type : NHS

Site : Furness General Hospital

Town : Barrow in Furness

Salary : £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata

Salary period : Yearly

Closing : 12 / 03 / 2025 23 : 59

Registered Nurse - Children's Ward

NHS AfC : Band 5

Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work''

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive.

Job overview

Do you consider caring with compassion to be fundamental to your role? Looking for a new career path in one of the most picturesque parts of the country? Are you a student looking to take up your first post or qualified nurse looking for a new challenge? Then Morecambe Bay is just the place for you, offering the beautiful Lake District on your doorstep.

Our Trust is recruiting enthusiastic, highly motivated nurses to join our dynamic, dedicated, forward-thinking professional team which serves a wide geographical area with rural and urban communities.

The services we provide include Children’s Inpatient, Day Care, Assessment, and Outpatients.

Main duties of the job

The units encompass inpatient, day care and assessment services for our communities. We also have dedicated Children’s Out-Patient departments on both sites. This ensures a rich variety of experiences and development for our staff.

You will be reliable, flexible, motivated, have excellent clinical skills, a commitment to ongoing learning and development, and be willing to embrace positive change and transformation to meet the demands of the community we serve.

You will care for children, young people, and families who are admitted for assessment, elective or emergency surgery, investigations, and treatment, including those requiring high dependency care. You will plan and evaluate together with other members of the MDT, ensuring the best possible outcomes for the child, young person, or family, maintaining a high standard of contemporaneous documentation.

You will work within the Nursing and Midwifery Code and adhere to local guidelines and policies, and complete training requirements.

You will work alongside the safeguarding team and follow local safeguarding policy.

Working for our organisation

We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community health care premises.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical / Coronary Care units, and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre for non-life threatening conditions.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties / responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website here .

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• Registered Children’s Nurse

Experience

Skills, Ability and Knowledge

PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL.

The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities wherever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive.

The Trust operates a No Smoking Policy.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview.

We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.

If the post is subject to Disclosure & Barring Service checking, a charge of £49.50 for Enhanced and £21.50 for Standard clearance and an additional £4.90 administration fee will be made to the successful candidate(s). This currently only applies to roles Band 6 and above and Medical & Dental posts.

Anyone newly appointed to the trust under the Agenda For Change contract will be subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probationary period.

Name : Mrs Kerry Little

Job title : Ward Manager

Email address : [email protected]

Telephone number : 01229 491090

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