Paediatric Nurse - Children's Unit - Huntingdon
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Registered Children's Nurse or Registered Nurse with experience in caring for children and young people, to join a friendly and supportive team on a 19-bedded Children's Unit. The unit includes a High Dependency bed and accommodates day surgery, working alongside the Paediatric Assessment Unit. The successful candidate will provide high standards of patient care, rotate to Peterborough City Hospital Children Wards as needed, and ensure timely referrals and discharge planning. The role requires a good communicator who is innovative, self-motivated, and committed to safeguarding vulnerable patients.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver first class care to families and patients on a 19-bedded Children's Unit.
- Rotate to Peterborough City Hospital Children Wards when there is a clinical need to expand skills and knowledge.
- Be a good communicator, innovative, and self-motivated, committed to high standards of patient care.
- Ensure patient care remains a priority in inter-professional practice and that referrals to the MDT are timely.
- Be aware of the safeguarding agenda, ensuring protection and identification of vulnerable patients.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues across the Trust.
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of NMC Codes of conduct and/or guidelines of professional practice
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of nursing within this clinical area
- Awareness of health and safety
- Awareness of quality issues and Clinical Governance
- Ability to learn from incidents and apply them to new situations
- Registered Children's Nurse with NMC Registration
- Registered Nurse (level 1) with significant experience in a clinical area that provides care to children and young people e.g. Children's ward/ED/Theatres and Recovery/Neonatal Unit
- Evidence of continuing professional development and its application
- Experience of a children's ward or department/setting where children and their families are nursed
- Evidence of working with children with life limiting conditions/complex health care needs.
- Competent at basic nursing care and life support (CPR)
- Interest in teaching and supervising students
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Good communication skills
- Organisational skills applied to self: time management, prioritising own caseload, initiative
- Awareness of the importance of risk management
- Awareness of Clinical Supervision and Reflective Practice and participate in these as per ward policy
- Ability to identify problems and recommend solutions
- Computer literacy
- Critical analysis skills
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk, governance and quality issues
- Willingness to actively participate in mechanisms to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the team through audit.
- BSc (or willingness to work towards)
- Mentorship Qualification (or willingness to undertake)
- Awareness of Trust and Ward/ Department polices and philosophies
- Awareness of broader issues within the Trust and NHS
- IV competency
- Ability to access central lines including administration of medication and ability to take bloods (or willingness to undertake)
- ECG competency
- Development of Phlebotomy skills
- Good leadership skills or potential to develop
- Teaching skills for trained and untrained staff, carers and patients
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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North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Paediatric Nurse - Children's Unit - Huntingdon
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a Registered Children's Nurse or Registered Nurse with experience in caring for children and young people? Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge? We would love to receive an application from you.
We are a friendly, supportive team that is passionate about delivering first class care to the families and patients who access our service. We have state of the art facilities equipped with the latest equipment that ensures that children receive the very highest standards of healthcare. This gives our families the reassurance that the very best is being done for the people who mean the most to them.
Band 5 opportunities include:
- Protected supernumerary period
- Preceptorship programme with resilience based supervision
- Band 5 orientation workbook
- Mindfulness and wellbeing at work
- Opportunities to be involved in quality improvement/change management
- Opportunities for further study - both internal and external courses
- Career progression opportunities
*Please Note the advert may close sooner than the date advertised due to levels of interest, closing of the advert will happen with no notice*
Main duties of the job
We are a 19 bedded unit which includes one High Dependency bed. We can accommo
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