Junior Sister - PANDR

Job overview

Are you a passionate Paediatric Critical Care Nurse ready for your next challenge? We're excited to invite experienced nurses to join our Paediatric Transport Service at Band 6-a unique and highly rewarding career opportunity.

PaNDR (Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval Service) is the dedicated neonatal and paediatric retrieval service for the East of England. Our neonatal and paediatric teams work within their specialist areas while collaborating closely to deliver seamless, high quality critical care. Together, we provide expert stabilisation and retrieval for neonates and children up to 16 years of age, supporting them both at referring hospitals and during ambulance transfers to specialist care centres.

This role offers an exceptional opportunity to expand your advanced critical care skills, working within a small, highly skilled team to stabilise and transport some of the sickest children and young people in the region. You'll also play an active role in outreach education, developing and delivering learning alongside the MDT to healthcare teams across the East of England.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for providing direct clinical care to infants requiring emergency and elective transfer. Team working ability and leadership skills will be used to ensure safe and effective delivery of the service for staff, parents and children according to the CUH Trust values and behaviours.

We provide a comprehensive induction programme, including transport specific competencies and specialist equipment training. Ongoing professional development is embedded into our culture, with daily teaching sessions and regular simulation training to keep your skills sharp and current. You'll rotate across three teams, delivering a 24/7 service, 365 days a year.

If you're looking to be part of a friendly, forward thinking, and innovative team committed to delivering family centred care to critically ill children, we'd love to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification: Responsible for key duties and responsibilities listed below. Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have applied for a Graduate visa or have successfully completed your course and applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment.

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Benefits to you

• Development opportunities and a wide range of benefits
• On site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries
• Reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site
• Free Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites
• Free route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals
• Subsidised cost of parking on site for eligible staff
• Hot food available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues
• Staff pod break spaces with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area
• Flexible arrangements including part time working, job share, term time working and flexible start and finish times

Qualifications

• Paediatric Critical Care qualification
• Teaching / mentorship qualification
• Degree in a relevant health related subject

Experience

• Shift leader experience
• Experience transferring children between departments internally
• Experience in governance processes which help to develop the service and measure quality
• Experience of surgical paediatric nursing
• Experience transferring children externally

Knowledge

• Awareness of professional issues
• Knowledge of team working dynamics
• Emotional intelligence
• Knowledge of paediatric transport developments and strategic national agenda

Skills

• Ability to be calm under pressure
• Able to take responsibility and use feedback for service improvement
• Basic IT skills
• Budgetary skills

Additional Requirements

• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
• The following hazards are associated with this job role:
  • Contact with patients in a clinical environment
  • Regular contact with patients who are vulnerable to infection
  • Contact with patients who are known to be infected
  • Shift work including night duty
  • Manual handling
  • Regular hand hygiene exposure to skin sensitisers (e.g. latex)

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.