The closing date is 17 December 2025
Salary: £37,259 to £45,356 a year Per Annum Including High Cost Area
Job summary
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in South East London is a large teaching hospital at the forefront of academic and nursing excellence. At the heart of King’s is the Variety Children’s Hospital (VCH) offering a wide range of services and specialities for children and young people at local, regional, and international level. Within the VCH is a 16 bedded Children’s Critical Care Centre providing both high dependency (HDU) and intensive care management.
Working in the Children’s Critical Care Centre will provide you with the opportunity to care for Intensive Care and High Dependency patients admitted under a variety of specialties:
- Neurosurgery
- Trauma
- General medicine and surgery
- Liver disease and liver transplantation
- Small bowel transplantation.
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Main duties of the job
Support and development opportunities are vital in our philosophy of providing the best care to our patients and valuing our staff. Development opportunities are actively encouraged and you will be supported in gaining relevant qualifications. Opportunities include the Paediatric Intensive Care (PICU) course, Paediatric Acute Nursing in Critical Care (HDU) course and Student Assessment training.
We boast a fantastic education team – two Practice Development Nurses and a Clinical Facilitator who will help support you in training and working on shift. They, with senior nurses and other colleagues, will help in supporting you via a comprehensive development programme including local competencies, and a clear career pathway.
The following post offers challenging opportunities for dynamic and highly motivated children’s nurses within the Children’s Critical Care Centre.
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (RN1) with active NMC registration
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Proficiency in dispensing and administrating oral & IV medication
- Able to manage a deteriorating patient
- Able to manage patients emotional needs and demonstrate empathy and caring
- Ability to communicate effectively (written and verbal)
- Ability to work collaboratively with other staff members
Knowledge and Experience
Desirable
- Acute experience within a paediatric setting
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).