Registered Nurse - Paediatrics King's College Hospital London

Clinical Practice

• Work with children, ask questions about their health for diagnosis, and document patients' symptoms and medical history for the doctor.
• Assess children s needs and provide initial care.
• Administer medications, draw blood, and give childhood vaccinations following age-appropriate guidelines.
• Monitor temperature, pulse, breathing, and blood pressure, ensuring accurate record-keeping.
• Evaluate children for signs and symptoms of abuse and escalate concerns as appropriate.
• Prepare equipment and assist physicians during examinations and treatments.
• Respond to life-saving situations in line with nursing standards and protocol.
• Deliver a high standard of evidence-based care to patients at King s College Hospital (KCH).
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patients needs on an ongoing basis.
• Ensure patients and their relatives are updated regularly with accurate and sensitive information.

Family and Patient Support

• Deal with the anxieties and demands of parents and help families cope with their child s illness or injury.
• Support patients, caretakers, and relatives, involving them in care where appropriate.
• Provide health education to promote healthy lifestyles.
• Have due regard for each patient s cultural and religious beliefs, respecting privacy, dignity, gender, and sexuality.
• Maintain patient confidentiality at all times.

Compliance and Standards

• Adhere to Dubai Health Authority (DHA) guidelines.
• Uphold high standards of care in all departments of KCH.
• Actively support the implementation of centre nursing and local strategy, upholding the ethos of the centre.
• Ensure relevant information regarding patients needs and conditions is communicated to the multidisciplinary team (MDT), and that instructions are acted upon.
• Work flexibly across the organization to maintain safe staffing levels or as part of personal development.
• Maintain good quality, legible, contemporaneous patient health records in line with KCH policy.
• Participate in nursing audits as required.
• Report adverse incidents in line with KCH policy and participate in investigations.
• Be willing to assume a link role for the centre (e.g., infection control, nursing audits) and ensure staff are kept updated on specialist areas.

Professional Development

• Remain up to date on the latest developments, rules and regulations, equipment, and treatment procedures.

Other Responsibilities

• Perform any additional duties reasonably assigned by the organization or line manager, even if not explicitly listed in this job description, to meet operational needs and support specific objectives of your department and organization
• Comply with all organizational and departmental policies, procedures, legal requirements, and applicable regulations at all times, and take personal responsibility to read, understand, follow and keep updated with the latest versions.
• Avoid and report any actions that may cause financial loss, reputational damage, or breach of trust to the organization, including fraud, dishonesty, or misrepresentation, which may result in disciplinary action, termination, and legal liability.
• Maintain confidentiality of all organizational, patient, client, and employee information in accordance with policies and laws.