Job summary To promote multi-disciplinary patient centred care and take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care within Wye Valley NHS Trust.Role will include working on Children's Ward, Children's OPD, Paediatric ED and PAUIn the absence of senior members take charge of the ward/department on a frequent basis.Various Hours available please enquire.
Main duties of the job Support the Ward/Departmental Manager and their deputy in the execution of their role.Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills.Demonstrate basic leadership skills and participate in the education and supervision of all staff and students.Demonstrate basic leadership skills and participate in the education and supervision of all staff and students.Demonstrate an awareness of national and local professional issues.Demonstrate a valid input to the professional team at Ward/Department level.To undertake family centred care when dealing with the patients and their families.
About us Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do.
We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right the time.
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Person Specification Education & Qualifications Essential Registered Nurse for children Desirable Child health degree Skills, Knowledge & Abilities Essential Demonstrate and understanding of accountability Demonstrate the relevance of patient centred care and interpret its meaning Understand the relevance of preceptorship and clinical supervision Desirable Willingness to expand practice to enhance patient care Experience Essential Recent experience in this speciality/experience Proven hospital based experience/equivalent or proven experience Desirable EPLS or equivalent Experience working in Paediatric ED and PAU