• Job Description

  Req#: C9377-25-0228?language=en&page=40&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Join our dedicated team as a Children's HDU Nurse and make a real difference. In this dynamic and rewarding role, you'll provide high-quality, compassionate care to acutely unwell children requiring close monitoring and specialised support.

  Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will play a key part in delivering safe, effective, and family-centred care in a fast-paced, high-dependency environment.

  This is an opportunity to grow your clinical skills, contribute to service development, and support families during some of their most challenging times.

  Main duties of the job

  Deliver safe, effective, and evidence-based nursing care to children requiring high dependency support.

  Monitor, assess, and manage the care of acutely unwell children, including those with complex medical needs.

  Use specialist equipment and clinical skills to provide continuous observation and intervention.

  Work collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary team to develop and implement individualised care plans.

  Act as a key point of contact for children and their families, offering support, information, and reassurance.

  Recognise and respond promptly to changes in a child's condition, escalating concerns appropriately.

  Safely administer medications and treatments in accordance with Trust policies and national guidelines.

  Contribute to clinical documentation, audits, and service improvement initiatives.

  Maintain high standards of infection prevention, patient safety, and safeguarding.

  Support junior staff, students, and new team members through supervision, mentorship, and role modelling.

  About us

  We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

  Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

  As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

  Details

  Date posted

  18 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £38,682 to £46,580 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  000511

  Job locations

  Pinderfields Hospital

  Wakefield

  West Yorkshire

  WF1 4DG

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Key requirements

  • Registered Children's Nurse (RNC) with current NMC registration.

  • Post-registration experience in an acute paediatric setting, ideally with experience in high dependency or critical care.

  • Strong knowledge of paediatric assessment skills, early recognition of deterioration, and management of acutely unwell children.

  • Competence in clinical skills such as IV administration, airway management, and use of monitoring equipment (e.g. oxygen therapy, NG tubes, ECG monitoring).

  • Current certification in Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS) is essential; EPALS (European Paediatric Advanced Life Support) is essential.

  • Level 2 critical care qualification is essential

  • Ability to remain calm and focused in high-pressure situations, with excellent clinical judgement and decision-making skills.

  • A compassionate and child-centred approach, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to support children and families.

  • Commitment to ongoing professional development, including completion or willingness to work towards relevant HDU/paediatric critical care training.

  • Effective team working skills with a flexible, proactive, and positive attitude.

  • Understanding of safeguarding, infection prevention, and governance standards in paediatric care.

  • Teaching and assessing qualification

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Key requirements

  • Registered Children's Nurse (RNC) with current NMC registration.

  • Post-registration experience in an acute paediatric setting, ideally with experience in high dependency or critical care.

  • Strong knowledge of paediatric assessment skills, early recognition of deterioration, and management of acutely unwell children.

  • Competence in clinical skills such as IV administration, airway management, and use of monitoring equipment (e.g. oxygen therapy, NG tubes, ECG monitoring).

  • Current certification in Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS) is essential; EPALS (European Paediatric Advanced Life Support) is essential.

  • Level 2 critical care qualification is essential

  • Ability to remain calm and focused in high-pressure situations, with excellent clinical judgement and decision-making skills.

  • A compassionate and child-centred approach, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to support children and families.

  • Commitment to ongoing professional development, including completion or willingness to work towards relevant HDU/paediatric critical care training.

  • Effective team working skills with a flexible, proactive, and positive attitude.

  • Understanding of safeguarding, infection prevention, and governance standards in paediatric care.

  • Teaching and assessing qualification

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).

  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.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

  Address

  Pinderfields Hospital

  Wakefield

  West Yorkshire

  WF1 4DG

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

  Address

  Pinderfields Hospital

  Wakefield

  West Yorkshire

  WF1 4DG

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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