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Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Registered Children's Nurse
Wakefield On-site 0-2 yrs exp Hospitals and Health Care 2,142 employees
Paediatric Burn AssessmentBurn ResuscitationWound HealingScar ManagementFluid Balance Monitoring
Requirements
Must be a Registered Nurse with the NMC or on an approved BSc/MSc nursing programme due to register within 12 months. Candidates should possess clinical knowledge of nursing issues and the ability to perform essential clinical skills with dexterity.
Job Description
Claire Swales. Telephone 01924 546416 or 01924 541931
About The Role
The Children's Regional Burns Unit at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust, based at Pinderfields Hospital, is a regional centre of excellence and a key part of the Northern Burn Care Network.
Our specialist unit has five inpatient beds and receives referrals from across Yorkshire, the Humber and North Lincolnshire to provide expert care for children with significant burn injuries. Alongside our inpatient service, we run a busy outpatient clinic that provides ongoing wound care for approximately 800 children each year. The department also accepts referrals for paediatric plastic surgery patients, offering a varied and rewarding clinical environment.
Due to internal promotion, we are looking to recruit enthusiastic and compassionate Band 5 Registered Children's Nurses to join our dedicated team. This is an exciting opportunity to develop specialist skills in burns and plastic surgery while working within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team committed to delivering family-centred, evidence-based care.
As part of our supportive and friendly team, you will care for both inpatients and outpatients, helping children and their families throughout their treatment and recovery. We are passionate about delivering the highest standards of care inline with the British Burn Association National Standards for Provision and Outcomes in Adult and Paediatric Burn Care, (2023) and are equally committed to supporting the development of our staff.
Whether you are newly qualified or looking for a new challenge, you will receive a comprehensive induction and competency-based training package to help you build confidence and expertise in this unique specialty. If you are motivated to make a real difference to children and families while developing your career in a specialist service, we would love to hear from you.
Essential person specification requirements
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application Guidance
We understand that more applicants are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.
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Our Benefits
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About The Role
The Children's Regional Burns Unit at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust, based at Pinderfields Hospital, is a regional centre of excellence and a key part of the Northern Burn Care Network.
Our specialist unit has five inpatient beds and receives referrals from across Yorkshire, the Humber and North Lincolnshire to provide expert care for children with significant burn injuries. Alongside our inpatient service, we run a busy outpatient clinic that provides ongoing wound care for approximately 800 children each year. The department also accepts referrals for paediatric plastic surgery patients, offering a varied and rewarding clinical environment.
Due to internal promotion, we are looking to recruit enthusiastic and compassionate Band 5 Registered Children's Nurses to join our dedicated team. This is an exciting opportunity to develop specialist skills in burns and plastic surgery while working within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team committed to delivering family-centred, evidence-based care.
As part of our supportive and friendly team, you will care for both inpatients and outpatients, helping children and their families throughout their treatment and recovery. We are passionate about delivering the highest standards of care inline with the British Burn Association National Standards for Provision and Outcomes in Adult and Paediatric Burn Care, (2023) and are equally committed to supporting the development of our staff.
Whether you are newly qualified or looking for a new challenge, you will receive a comprehensive induction and competency-based training package to help you build confidence and expertise in this unique specialty. If you are motivated to make a real difference to children and families while developing your career in a specialist service, we would love to hear from you.
- To provide evidence based care for a group of patients, both on an in-patient and out-patient basis.
- To provide wound dressing changes as required - these can, at times, be lengthy & complex.
- Develop specialist knowledge in paediatric burn assessment, burn resuscitation, wound healing and scar management.
- Assist in the care of children requiring sedation, theatre procedures and dressing changes under anaesthetic.
- Participate in the management of complex burn injuries, including fluid balance monitoring, nutritional support and rehabilitation.
- Contribute to long-term follow-up care for children recovering from burn injuries, recognising the physical and psychosocial impact of burns.
- To provide care inline with local, national and regional standards.
- To liaise with and attend safeguarding meetings.
- To contribute to the development of the paediatric burn service.
Essential person specification requirements
- Registered Nurse with the NMC or on an NMC approved BSc/MSc nursing programme due to register with the NMC within 12 months.
- Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree or equivalent.
- Up to date knowledge of current nursing issues, research and practice.
- Ability to plan, assess, implement and evaluate patient care
- Prioritise tasks
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships
- Delegate and co-ordinate person centred patient care effectively
- Work effectively as part of a Multidisciplinary Team
- Supervise junior staff and learners in practice
- An ability to perform clinical skills with dexterity for example: insertion and removal of peripheral cannulation, venepuncture and catheters
- Administer medications using a range of routes
- IT skills which can be built upon to incorporate the use of hospital administration, information and training systems
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application Guidance
We understand that more applicants are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.
Application Tips
If you need help with your application, take a look at the tips on our .
Our Benefits
- Access to the NHS pension plan
- Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
- Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
- Extensive benefits and support, including:
- Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
- Home electronics scheme
- Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
- Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
- Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
- Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
- Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
- Career progression, training and support
You can find out more about skilled worker and health and care visas on our .
Education
Bachelor DegreeProfessional CertificatePostgraduate Degree
Skills
Paediatric Burn AssessmentBurn ResuscitationWound HealingScar ManagementFluid Balance MonitoringNutritional SupportRehabilitationPeripheral CannulationVenepunctureCatheterizationMedication AdministrationPatient Care PlanningMultidisciplinary TeamworkSafeguardingClinical DexterityIT Skills
About Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust provides acute, community and specialist health care services to around half a million people living in Wakefield and North Kirklees. We have three hospitals at Dewsbury, Pontefract and Wakefield (Pinderfields), and also provide care in community settings such as GP surgeries, health centres and clinics as well as in people’s own homes. Every one of our 9,000 staff play a vital role in providing quality care to the thousands of people we serve and we are proud to have a hard working, talented, and dynamic work force who strive every day to provide quality care and support to those who use our services. Our mission is to recruit, develop and retain skilled and motivated people who embody the Trust’s core values of caring, respect, high standards and improving. We do this by creating a supportive working environment - in first class facilities - where excellence and innovation is valued and celebrated; by providing excellent training and development opportunities, and by offering a comprehensive package of staff benefits to reward our employees for their hard work and commitment.
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