# Band 8a Children’s Site Practitioner (CSP)

**Company**: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
**Location**: Romford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £63665.00 to £70887.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an exceptional, highly motivated, and experienced Children's Nurse to join our expanding Children's Directorate as a Children's Site Practitioner (CSP). This is an exciting opportunity for an accomplished nursing leader to make a significant contribution to the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate care for children, young people, and their families.

As a CSP, you will provide visible, credible, and inspirational leadership across a range of children's services, promoting excellence in patient care, safety, and experience. Working collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, you will deliver expert clinical advice and utilise advanced clinical skills to support high-quality decision-making and patient management across the Directorate.

The post holder will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of high standards of clinical care, maintaining effective patient flow, and supporting operational decision-making across the organisation. You will proactively identify risks, resource challenges, and service pressures, taking timely action to develop and implement effective solutions that support safe and efficient care delivery.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide a clinically credible senior children's nursing service, demonstrating expert knowledge and clinical skills, as the practitioner responsible for the assessment of children's needs and utilisation of appropriate resources to meet them, in association with the on-call Medical team and as part of the children's hospital at night team.

- Provide expert advice on issues related to children's nursing.

- Liaise with the Trust Site Team and bed managers to make sure that the bed base is used to optimum efficiency. Identify any shortfall to the Service Manager/Senior Site Operations Manager if beds are closed for staffing or Infection reasons.

- To work closely with the children's services/NICU Matrons and ward managers, to develop and implement systems for reviewing expenditure controls, cost pressures and risks related to areas of responsibility

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £63,665 to £70,887 per annum

- Part-time position

**Requirements**

- RSCN / RN (Child)

- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the National Policy context for nursing practice and development, knowledge and understanding of quality and safety and evidence of up to date knowledge for Safeguarding children.

- Relevant children's experience in an acute setting

## Skills

### Required
- RSCN / RN (Child)
- Safeguarding children
- National Policy context for nursing practice

### Nice to have
- Change management or service improvement experience/ qualification

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