Band 5 Staff Nurse – Paediatric Intensive Care Unit – GOSH

Band 5 Staff Nurse – Paediatric Intensive Care Unit  

• Location: Great Ormond Street Hospital
• Hours: 37.5 hours / 12 hour shifts (07:45 – 20:15 and 19:45 – 08:15)
• Type: Full Time/Permanent (Part Time hrs considered)
• Salary: Between £34,089 – £41,498 per annum inclusive (depending on experience)

Are you looking to join a friendly and highly skilled team that is dedicated to providing the highest levels of care for children and young people? Do you wish to advance in a rewarding specialism that offers cutting-edge technologies?

We are looking for NMC-registered nurses to join Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to work in their well-established team within the Heart and Lung Directorate.

About the role 

PICU is a 17 bedded unit who look after the sickest children of all ages. We offer intensive care for all specialties including oncology, neurology, metabolic & renal medicine, ENT, endocrinology and respiratory medicine. PICU is also the regional Neurosurgical ICU for North Thames. Over 1000 admissions were cared for on PICU in 2022! Our patients come to us from all wards in the hospital and also via emergency transport services such as CATS.  There are lots of development opportunities beginning with a very comprehensive foundation year and progressing to the Intensive Care Course, training in CRRT (Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy), carrying the bleep as part of the cardiac arrest team and rotating unto CATS (Children’s Acute Transport Service).

The PICU team is a multidisciplinary team which includes intensive care doctors and nurses, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, ventilator technicians, physiotherapists and pharmacists.

Development Provided

Once you’re here, you’ll be given a preceptor or mentor based on your background and receive ongoing assistance from our own ward-based education team. Where necessary, these employees will assist you as you develop your skills and confidence.

If you want to rotate across all the areas and specialties within Heart and Lung, you will be able to do so by participating in customised development programmes, which include alternatives. Additionally, we’ll give you access to a planned developmental roadmap to help you advance from Band 5 to Band 6 which includes the PICU course.

Benefits include

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme
• Interest-free season ticket loans
• Subsidised on-site staff massage
• Help with childcare
• On-site Nursery
• A wide range of sports and social activities
• Help with finding accommodation
• A staff counselling and advice service
• A staff recognition scheme, in the form of a monthly and annual awards ceremony
• On-going professional development
• Access to a wide range of local and national discounts as a GOSH employee.
• The Trust offers several staff support options from access to counselling, financial wellbeing advice,  credit union membership, hardship grants and a dedicated Citizens Advice Bureau advisor for our staff.

Requirements for this role

• NMC Registration (Children or Adults)
• Relevant nursing qualification with a minimum of 1 years post-graduation experience
• Experience of working with acutely unwell patients essential

• Ability to work well both in a team and on own initiative
• Good time management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Computer literate
• Evidence of continuous professional development

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.