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Open Day May 2nd 24 - Evelina Paediatric Critical Care/Intensive Care

Job details
Posting date: 23 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £34,089 - £41,498 p.a inc HCA (pro rata for part timers)
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 23 May 2024
Location: London, SE1 7EH
Company: Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6253527/196-NM11545

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Summary

A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.


Open Day 2nd May - Paediatric Critical Care, and Intensive Care at Evelina London at both Royal Brompton Hospital Site and Evelina Children's Hospital.

We are welcoming newly qualified and experienced nurses to join our exciting open day which will include the chance to tour the unit, simulation demonstrations, talks from our multidisciplinary team and the chance to meet our staff and talk about how you can start or progress your career with us.

Evelina Children's Hospital Site2nd May 10:30 - 13:30

Royal Brompton Site2nd May 14:30 - 17:00

Evelina Children's Hospital critical care is one of the largest units in the UK, with a 20 bedded level 3 intensive care unit on Forest floor and a 6 bedded Critical Care unit on Sky floor.

The Royal Brompton Hospital PICU is an established 16 bedded unit within the new Evelina Cardio-Respiratory and Intensive Care directorate.

We offera well-established, dynamic multi-professional team with a wealth of experience.There are job opportunities across paediatric critical care, on our PICU, or PCCU units, or have an option to work across both. We offer a fully supportive programme of induction and training, to work within the critical care environment.

The poster for the event is attached with the documents of this job, please use the QR code to book on or use the following link

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-care-open-day-evelina-london-tickets-880251234137?aff=oddtdtcreator

Our nurses have the opportunity to gain a wide variety of experience caring for children requiring medical and surgical management, including those undergoing complex cardiac, spinal, ENT and airway surgery, some of whom require the joint care of the many specialist services within Evelina London.

Critical care nursing has a vast range of opportunity for development, including courses in critical care, which lead to the opportunity to develop skills in ECMO, renal replacement therapy and retrieval.

If you have what it takes to be an amazing Evelina Nurse, and have the appetite to join a forward thinking, positive environment, where aspiration and innovation are encouraged, we want you to join us.



Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation

At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important life is, and how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance of responsibilities in and out of work. We are committed to supporting flexible working; we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

We are committed to supporting professional development, and have excellent training and educational offerings. Recognising that looking after babies, children and young people is incredibly rewarding, but can also bring challenge we offer amazing resources to help support our staff’s emotional wellbeing and resilience.

Please see the attached Job Description for full details of duties and responsibilities.
• Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical areas, ensuring that high quality, current evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, implementation, interventions and evaluations for patients is provided from admission through to discharge.
• Will be responsible for the application of knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
• To act as advocate for patients within the area, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
• To ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
• Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
• Will advise on the promotion of health and the prevention of illness.
• Recognise the significance of observations made, and use them to develop and initiate nursing assessments and devise a plan of care.
• Carry out those activities necessary to conduct a comprehensive assessment of a person’s nursing requirements.
• Will ensure that all patients will have a discharge plan that is safe and appropriate for their needs.
• Carry out nursing procedures and treatments, checking on and maintaining the highest possible standards.
• Work alongside the multi-disciplinary team to ascertain treatments and advise on nursing priorities.
• Take a clear and concise history from patients by assessing their health and wellbeing and complete documentation ensuring that all entries are accurate and legible and that all information systems are maintained.
• Undertake prescribed physical observations as follows: blood pressure, temperature, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height, and report exceptions appropriates.
• Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products


This advert closes on Friday 3 May 2024

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