Registered Children's Nurse in Wakefield

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.

Main duties of the job:

• 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.

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.

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, 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.

Qualifications:

• Registered Nurse with the NMC or on an NMC approved BSc/MSc nursing programme due to register with the NMC within 12 months.

Experience:

• Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree or equivalent.

Knowledge and Awareness:

• Up to date knowledge of current nursing issues, research and practice.

Skills and Abilities:

• 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.

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.