Nursing Associate: Sponsorship Available

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

At the heart of Kings is the Variety Children’s Hospital (VCH) offering a wide range of services and specialities for children and young people at local, regional, and international level. Within the VCH is a 16 bedded Children’s Critical Care Centre providing care to both high dependency and intensive care patients.

Working in Children’s Critical Care will provide you with the opportunity to care for for families wo have children admitted under a variety of specialties:

  • Neurosurgery, trauma, general medicine and surgery, liver disease and transplantation, small bowel transplantation, neonatal surgery, intensive care and high dependency care.

Support and development opportunities are vital in our philosophy of providing the best care to our patients and in valuing our staff. Development opportunities are actively encouraged, and you will be supported in gaining relevant competencies and qualifications by both the PDN and clinical facilitation team.

We are looking for a nursing associate to provide high quality nursing care to patients and their families requiring treatment in the Children’s critical Care Unit. This person will be responsible for their own patient workload. They will require excellent communication skills and a caring and compassionate attitude. You will be working collaboratively with the nursing and medical team the allied health professionals and the clerical team.

Main duties of the job

Clinical and Patient Care

  • Ensure excellent standards of care for the patient are maintained at all times.
  • Provide compassionate, safe and effective evidence-based care and support to people in a range of care settings.
  • Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with MDT, families, and carers, recognising when it is necessary to refer or escalate to others for reassessment.
  • Develop understanding of caring for individuals with particular conditions aligning with the unit specialities, including liver, neurosurgical and trauma.
  • Support patients and their families to improve and maintain their mental, physical, behavioural health and wellbeing through health education.
  • Assist in the implementation of appropriate action to meet the specific physical, emotional and psychological, social, cultural and spiritual needs of patients, families and carers.
  • Be actively involved in the prevention of and protection against disease and ill health.
  • Perform and record clinical observations including blood pressure, temperature, respirations, and pulse.
  • Accurately record nutritional and fluid intake.
  • Recognise and report any situations, behaviours or errors that could result in poor care outcomes.
  • Ensure the privacy, dignity and safety of individuals is maintained at all times.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Foundation Degree (FDSc) Nursing Associate
  • GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent
  • Nursing Associate with active NMC registration

Desirable

  • Understands how the role may contribute to service development
  • Experience of Working in a Critical Care Environment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 02 April 2025

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