Job Description
Job Title: Nursery Nurse
Trust: Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Pay Rates: £12.25 - £19.60 per hour
*These pay rates are subject to seasonal incentives and may change*
We are all NHS Professionals... could you be?
Could you be an NHS Professional?
We are NHS Professionals (NHSP), working together to care for patients in the NHS. Providing you with the power to decide when, how, and where you want to work. Supporting your lifestyle and making you feel part of the team and community.
As a member, you’ll have fantastic benefits:
· Competitive pay rates – work this week, get paid next week
· Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go – access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
· Essential support when you need it – 24/7 365 days – Call us anytime
· Multi-locational - work across neighbouring Trusts
· First choice of shifts or placements at your Trust – access before they are made available to agency
· Varied working options to suit your lifestyle – access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or fixed term placements
· Training and development opportunities
· Build holiday allowance for every shift you work
· Stakeholder pension scheme available
About the Trust – As a leader in child healthcare and research, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust provides care for more than 330,000 children and young people each year, making us one of the biggest and busiest children’s hospitals in Europe. This care is delivered not only on our main site in Liverpool, but in patients’ homes and communities, and at other hospitals across the North of England.
Our state-of-the-art hospital, on our main site in Liverpool, opened in October 2015. It sets a new benchmark within the NHS and has won many prestigious industry awards. Buildings, however, are only as good as what happens inside them.
Excellent transport links mean their location is commutable from Liverpool, Wirral, Merseyside.
What you will be responsible for:
- To work within OFSTED registration guidelines to ensure a high standard of care for every child, whilst creating a safe and stimulating atmosphere for children to play, learn and develop. To enable young children to make good progress in their learning by building upon the skills they have in preparation for school readiness.
- To support the Nursery Management Team to create and maintain a safe, warm, caring and stimulating environment, providing encouragement and praise to ensure the development of each child.
- To implement/oversee the provision of daily activities which stimulate sensorial, creative messy play and also covers the seven areas of learning as stated in the EYFS frame work.
- To promote and encourage outside learning opportunities, assisting the children to explore the environment within the nursery gardens, through trips to local areas, ensuring staff ratios and health and safety guidelines are adhered to.
- To participate in regular supervision sessions, an annual appraisal review, and a personal development action plan that is reviewed every six months.
- To attend all statutory and mandatory training as and when required to do so.
* Please note that this job description is flexible and may be amended to reflect additional expectations should a suitable candidate wish to take on some leadership responsibility*
You’ll have the following qualification/experience:
- NNEB or NVQ Level 3
- First Aid (Desirable)
- Basic Food Hygiene (Desirable)
*Depending on the Trust, you may require variable additional certification and skills*
Who are NHS Professionals?
We specialise in putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.
As an equal opportunities' organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.
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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.
Disclaimer
Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary contract, Zero hours contract
Salary: £12.25-£19.60 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- No weekends
- Weekend availability
- Weekends only
Work Location: In person