Paediatric Registered Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 5 Children's Registered Nurse to join the Paediatric Team on the Children's Ward and Children's Assessment Unit (CAU) at York Hospital. The ward is a busy 20-bedded unit caring for children aged 0-18 with various medical, psychological, and surgical conditions. You will work autonomously and as part of a team, managing your own patients with support, and acting as a positive role model. The position offers excellent learning and development opportunities with a tailored personal and professional development plan.
Essential criteria
- Registered Children's Nurse (Level 1 or 2)
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate children's module/study
- Experience and Knowledge Required
- Willing to undergo training as necessary
- Ability to demonstrate and explain skills to other staff
- Current issues in health care Standards of Professional Practice
- Working Knowledge of child protection issues.
- Paediatric immediate life support
- Awareness of RCN Emergency nursing competency framework
- Safeguarding children
- CAMHS (child and adolescent mental health)
- Minor Injuries
- Awareness of speciality
- Capable of lateral thinking
- Skills and Attributes
- Good written and verbal skills
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
- Understanding of skills and knowledge required to develop team members
- Enthusiastic and self motivated
- Committed to working with people
- Flexible, adaptable
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Demonstrate a commitment to self development
- Aptitude and Personal Qualities
- Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post.
- Values & Behaviours
- Ability to demonstrate our organisational values and behaviours: . We are Kind. . We are Open. . We pursue Excellence.
- Education, Qualifications and Training
- Registered Children's Nurse (Level 1 or 2)
- Post graduate children's module/study
- Experience and Knowledge Required
- Willing to undergo training as necessary
- Ability to demonstrate and explain skills to other staff
- Current issues in health care Standards of Professional Practice
- Working Knowledge of child protection issues.
- Paediatric immediate life support
- Awareness of RCN Emergency nursing competency framework
- Safeguarding children
- CAMHS (child and adolescent mental health)
- Minor Injuries
- Awareness of speciality
- Capable of lateral thinking
- Skills and Attributes
- Good written and verbal skills
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
- Understanding of skills and knowledge required to develop team members
- Enthusiastic and self motivated
- Committed to working with people
- Flexible, adaptable
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Demonstrate a commitment to self development
- Aptitude and Personal Qualities
- Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post.
- Values & Behaviours
- Ability to demonstrate our organisational values and behaviours: . We are Kind. . We are Open. . We pursue Excellence.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Paediatric Registered Nurse
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for Band 5 Children's Registered Nurses to join our dedicated Paediatric Team on the Children's Ward and Children's Assessment Unit (CAU) at York Hospital.
The Children's Ward at York Hospital is a busy 20 bedded General Paediatric Ward, with a separate Children's Assessment Unit, delivering care for children (0-18 years) with a variety of medical, Psychological and surgical conditions.
You will work autonomously as well as part of the team, and be responsible for your own patients, with support from the nurse in charge, on a shift-by-shift basis, utilising and sharing your clinical expertise and acting as a positive role model for staff, patients and carers. A broad knowledge of safeguarding procedures is desirable but full training in this area will be given. You will be expected to support other staff on the unit and work under the guidance of the nurse in charge.
You will be supported by our enthusiastic Children's Nursing Team, Nurse Educator Specialist Nurses and Medical staff, offering you excellent learning and development opportunities. You will have a tailor made personal and professional development plan to support your career development within this exciting new role.
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