Paediatric HDU Senior Staff Nurse

We have an exciting and challenging opportunity for a dynamic and innovative Band 5 or existing Band 6 with excellent clinical skills to join our HDU team on Tiger Safari Ward at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. We are looking to recruit 4 WTE Paediatric HDU Senior Staff Nurses substantively.

Our HDU service consists of 4 commissioned Level 2 respiratory beds, as well as Level 1 HDU beds, on our general children's inpatient ward, providing high quality care for children and young people up to the age of 16 years requiring high dependency care. This includes long term ventilation and acute NIV. We are a busy, high acuity unit, with a complex population of children presenting with a wide variety of pathology.

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality care to children requiring Level 2 and Level 1 critical care interventions, including children who are long term trache or non-invasively ventilated, those on acute NIV and HFNC, children with DKA, and those on opiate infusions

To directly oversee HDU trained HCAs who are providing 1:1 HDU care on the ward.

To assist paediatric, anaesthetic and STRS teams in caring for and optimising children who need retrieval for uplift to PICU care.

To act as a mentor, teaching and supervising junior staff including band 5 nurses, student nurses and HDU trained health care support workers.

Opportunities to:

Contribute to HDU service development including fortnightly MDT meetings

Assist in facilitating simulation

Cascade and contribute to MDT training in areas such as tracheostomy management and ventilation

Complete train the trainer courses and contribute to parent competencies in tracheostomy care and LTV

Attend STRS and STPN networking and training events, 1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations