Staff Nurse Countywide Childrens Clinic

Job summary

Childrens Clinic is a Countywide service, providing dedicated Children and Young people Clinics in Kidderminster, Worcester and Redditch.

We are small friendly team dedicated to providing the best care for our patients however long or short their journey is with us.

This is a dynamic service with a culture of improvement and change. We encourage new ways of thinking and working.

The team within Childrens Clinic is very experienced and will be able to support you learning new skills such as phlebotomy, cannulation, endocrine testing, Chemotherapy administration, catherisation and will ensure you have access to training opportunities, Paediatric Immediate Life Support and European Paediatric Advance Life Support Courses along with essential to role training.

Within the Paediatric team we have dedicated Education Supervisor who will oversee your induction to the trust and Women and Childrens Directorate.

Main duties of the job

Our nursing team have a versatile and flexible role within Childrens Clinic. We support a wide variety of clinics and specialities, and as such have a varied work streams and tasks such as:

• Supporting general paediatric clinics: Heights/Weights/Observations/Phlebotomy/Chaperone/urinalysis
• Support of speciality Clinics- Diabetes/Allergy/Oncology/Endocrine/Gynae/Cardiology/Respiratory/Cystic Fibrosis/nephrology/epilepsy
• Nurse led phlebotomy Clinics
• Nurse led Vaccination clinics
• Nurse led day case procedures: Endocrine testing, sub cut immunotherapy, sedated bloods/MRI, blood transfusions for non oncology patients
• Day case admissions for GA MRI, Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment, blood product transfusions
• Day case admissions for catheterisation
• Day Case admissions for cannulation
• Skin prick testing
• Pre operative assessment
• Seeking feedback from patients and their family to improve our service
• Service improvement through constructive feedback and problem solving

Our aim is to provide the best service for our patients.

Job responsibilities

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.