Band 5 Children'S Nurse

Hampshire Hospitals Nhs; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Basingstoke and Winchester is seeking a Band 5 Children’s Nurse to join our dedicated Children’s Unit. You will deliver compassionate paediatric care across the Acute and Neonatal units, supported by a robust orientation package and the Clinical Education Team.

Join a supportive team with opportunities to develop your paediatric career while delivering high-quality care to children and their families.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in paediatric care.
• Children's Nurse qualification or equivalent.
• Computer literacy and ability to use clinical systems.
• Experience in Child Health or paediatric services is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support the team in delivering high-quality paediatric care and ensure patient safety.
• Develop own clinical practice, knowledge, skills and experience.
• Act as a good role model for junior staff and students.
• Ensure services meet CQC and contractual requirements.
• Undertake comprehensive patient assessments and discharge planning.

Skills

Computer Literacy

Education

Registered Nurse (NMC registered)

Children's Nurse qualification

Job description

Job overview

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Child Health team is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Children’s Nurse to join our dedicated Children’s Unit.

As an integrated service, we take pride in delivering high-quality, compassionate care to children and their families when and where they need it. We are proud to be one of the few services of this kind in the UK.

We have opportunities across a range of clinical areas, including the Acute Children’s Unit, Day Surgical Unit and Neonatal Unit in Winchester. We welcome applications from nurses looking to begin or develop their careers in paediatric nursing within a supportive and dynamic team.

Positions are available across our Basingstoke and Winchester sites, offering the opportunity to gain valuable experience and contribute to delivering excellent care to children and their families.

At HHFT, we offer a full and comprehensive orientation package and professional support suited to your individual needs, alongside ongoing support from the Clinical Education Team, for you to achieve your full potential. We register all NQN's onto the Wessex Child or Neonatal preceptorship programme, with support from the HHFT Child Health education team

Main duties of the job

To support the team in the delivery of the service, this includes:

High standards of Professional Practice to ensure quality and safety of patient care, experience and the patientjourney.

Developing own clinical practice, knowledge, skills andexperience.

Acting as a good rolemodel

Supporting the team in ensuring that clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care and that all compliance requirements such as CQC and contractual requirements areachieved.

To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients using investigative and analytical skills where factors may be conflicting, requiring analysis and interpretation skills and the comparison of a range of options to achieve effective treatment or discharge planningcheck

To develop clinically reasoned treatment, action, and discharge plans and to undertake and evaluate treatment.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Person specification

Training and qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse, with Experience
• Children's Nurse qualification
• Computer Literate

Desirable criteria

• Continued professional CPD
• Aware of HHFT Trust Core Values
• Experience of staff and student supervision

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience of working within Child Health

Desirable criteria

• HCSW experience within Child Health, Neonatal Unit

Skills and ability

Essential criteria

• Ability to demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values.

Desirable criteria

• Customer care experience and dealing with complaints