Band 6 Children’s Sister/Charge Nurse

Our Children’s team provide acute care across a range of clinical specialties including but not limited to: oncology, haematology, respiratory, diabetes, endocrine, neurology and day surgery. We also provide a children’s community nursing team.

At QH we have 30 acute inpatient beds on Tropical Lagoon which includes 4 HDU level 2 beds. We have a children’s complex discharge co-ordinator to support the most effective flow across our children’s and neonatal areas and community services, also working with our tertiary hospitals to facilitate repatriating children back to QH and therefore closer to home.

We have practice educators across all of children’s services to provide education to all our staff in the clinical and classroom setting.

Our Children’s and Young People’s Assessment Unit (CYPAU) at QH is located next to Children’s Emergency Department. It is a 9 bedded 24hr facility used for the assessment and treatment of children who require urgent medical care. Alongside PELC referrals and 4 CCDU (Children’s clinical decision unit) chairs.

Dahlia Ward is an 8 bedded unit at King Geoge’s hospital which takes lower acuity patients combined with 4 CCDU (Children’s clinical decision unit) chairs.

The post holder will act as a role model and provide leadership in the clinical area and will be responsible for overseeing assessment of care needs of children and young people, planning programmes of care, implementation and evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision. Responsible in education and supervision of staff as coordinated with the Children’s Clinical Nurse Educator.

To demonstrate advanced clinical specialist skills in order to provide the highest standard of individualised evidence based patient centred care while supervising the work of others. To expect to take charge on each shift and to supervise and co-ordinate other staff as appropriate, develops self and others professionally.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we’re no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It’ll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ceira O'Donnell Job title: Ward Manager Email address: ceira.odonnell@nhs.net Telephone number: 01708435000

Ext. 6553