Paediatric Staff Nurse - Band 5
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Registered Children's Nurse to join a friendly and supportive paediatric team at Macclesfield District General Hospital. The unit includes a 16-bedded medical and surgical unit, a 5-bedded observation unit, and children's out-patients. The successful candidate will provide high-quality, holistic family-centred care, working flexibly including weekends, nights, and bank holidays. The trust encourages personal development, offering preceptorship and opportunities for rotation and special interest development.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Child (Nursing and Midwifery Council NMC)
- Understanding of NMC Code, safeguarding and consent; working knowledge of NHS values and standards
Desirable criteria
- Acute Paediatric Experience
- Post-registration course relevant to clinical area
- Knowledge and Skills
- Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care, effective documentation skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to build therapeutic relationships
- Ability to work within a team and take delegated responsibility, understanding of professional boundaries
- Able to prioritise and manage time effectively in a busy clinical setting
- Confident in using electronic patient records and digital systems
- Compassionate, reliable, committed to person-centred care; demonstrates resilience and emotional maturity
- Proficient in clinical procedures relevant to the area (e.g., IV administration, catheterisation)
- Experience liaising with families and multi-agency professionals
- Knowledge of local and national healthcare initiatives
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Evidence of recent acute or relevant clinical experience (including student placements)
- Previous experience mentoring students or supervising junior staff
- Experience of taking charge or leading a shift
- Experience contributing to service improvement or change
- Experience using audit or reporting tools
- Further Information
- Please provide any additional relevant information to support your application. Please note that this is a non-scoring question.
- Other Role Requirements
- Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details regarding the role requirements
- Registered Nurse Child (Nursing and Midwifery Council NMC)
- Understanding of NMC Code, safeguarding and consent; working knowledge of NHS values and standards
- Acute Paediatric Experience
- Post-registration course relevant to clinical area
- Knowledge and Skills
- Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care, effective documentation skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to build therapeutic relationships
- Ability to work within a team and take delegated responsibility, understanding of professional boundaries
- Able to prioritise and manage time effectively in a busy clinical setting
- Confident in using electronic patient records and digital systems
- Compassionate, reliable, committed to person-centred care; demonstrates resilience and emotional maturity
- Proficient in clinical procedures relevant to the area (e.g., IV administration, catheterisation)
- Experience liaising with families and multi-agency professionals
- Knowledge of local and national healthcare initiatives
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Evidence of recent acute or relevant clinical experience (including student placements)
- Previous experience mentoring students or supervising junior staff
- Experience of taking charge or leading a shift
- Experience contributing to service improvement or change
- Experience using audit or reporting tools
- Further Information
- Please provide any additional relevant information to support your application. Please note that this is a non-scoring question.
- Other Role Requirements
- Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details regarding the role requirements
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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East Cheshire NHS Trust
Paediatric Staff Nurse - Band 5
The closing date is 07 September 2026
Job summary
Subject to job matching
Are you a registered children's nurse looking for a new challenge or to consolidate your new skills? We are looking for a children's nurse (RN (Registered Nurse) Child /RSCN (Registered Sick Children's Nurse)) to join our friendly and supportive team.
We are looking for a team player with excellent communication skills and a drive to provide high quality care. We actively encourage personal development and offer preceptorship and an ongoing competency based framework will be provided to ensure support to successful individuals. The post holder will be expected to work flexibly to include weekends, night duties and bank holidays.
The children's unit at Macclesfield District General Hospital includes a 16 bedded unit for both medical and surgical patients, and a 5 bedded observation and assessment unit. We also have a Children's out-patients and Specialist Nurses for Diabetes, Epilepsy, Asthma, Allergy, Eczema and Research. We have a dedicated team of Children's Community Nurses to facilitate health care for children in their own home. We actively encourage rotation into all these areas and opportunities to develop your area of special interest.
Hours per week: 37.5
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