Job summary
- Main area
- Specialised Medicine - Long Term Ventilation
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 284-26-7803639-DMUT
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birmingham Children's Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/05/2026
Employer heading
Experienced Staff Nurse
Band 5
Flexible working:
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
Ocean Ward is a 6 bedded unit caring for patients requiring long term ventilation via tracheostomy.
It is essential we recruit experienced nurses that have a passion for the specialty to provide the standard of care we expect.
If you are an experienced (1 year post qualifying), Paediatric nurse we would welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
As an experienced band 5 (1 year plus) your job will be:
- To provide high quality care for the child and family in a safe and professional environment.
- Family integrated care is promoted by working in partnership with the child and family.
- All staff will be supported in order to develop professional expertise in LTV
- Professional development will support NMC and mandatory requirements and meet service need.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Band 5 Paediatric nurse or above, experience desirable
Desirable criteria
- Experience within Tracheostomy and LTV
- Degree
- Course in Mentoring and assessing in clinical practice or equivalent
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- High level communications skills to enable communicating with families
- Time management
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Team member
- Able to organise daily workload to ensure high quality and safe care and work well and support of surrounding team
- Must demonstrate good health and attendance at work and be able to work a range of shifts spanning the 24 clock.
- Must be able to stand/walk around bed space for long periods
- Must have occupational health clearance
- Ability to work under pressure
- Effective time management
Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge
Essential criteria
- People Management/Leadership/Resources Work to use bedside resources effectively To effectively mentor new staff, students and visiting staff
- Able to engage with IT programs to support patient care and be able to communicate effectively via email.
- Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required
- Team working
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
- Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- Analytic skills and ability to think quickly in a rapidly changing acute environment
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working with families
- Participate fully in tracheostomy competencies.
- Willing to engage in education to further development.
Desirable criteria
- At least 1 year post registration experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mary Pitham
- Job title
- Ward Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 333 9175
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