Band 5 - Paediatric Staff Nurse - Portsmouth in London

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are recruiting for a passionate Band 5 Paediatric Staff Nurse to join their highly skilled team. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is the largest non-teaching hospital trust in England, serving around 675,000 residents in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire.

Job Summary

Ensuring high quality nursing care is coordinated and delivered using a family focused model of practice. Work as part of a cohesive multidisciplinary team ensuring patient care is delivered smoothly and efficiently. The expectations within this job description will be achieved through hands-on clinical practice, education and training and research.

Key Responsibilities

• Promote and set high standards of nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust policies, protocols and guidelines.
• Provide and deliver a high standard of evidence-based nursing care through the assessment, planning, and evaluating of individual patients' needs based on evidence.
• Initiate and co-ordinate care in the clinical area for a specified group of patients.
• Recognise and respond to a change in patient status undertaking first line interventions within scope of practice and refer on to the appropriate clinician as required.
• Actively promote safe and effective working practices to prevent harm to the patients within your care and take part in safety audits to maintain high quality standards.
• Communicate and work with the multidisciplinary team to improve quality of care and informed clinical decisions.
• Promote innovation and share new ideas to improve patient care.
• Participate in the allocation of workload and ensure efficient bed management and effective patient flow.
• Coordinate care for area when competent and able to do so.
• Liaise, report and document any relevant nursing/patient needs with other health care professionals with ongoing responsibility for patient care, communicating changes as they occur.
• Ensure that accurate and timely patient records are maintained.
• Implement the trust ‘values and beliefs’ ensuring they are embedded into everyday practice and evaluate their impact on the patients’ experience.
• Engage and interact with parents/carers encouraging them to be actively involved in patient’s care planning as outlined in the ward/unit philosophy.
• Ensure concerns raised by patients and their families are escalated and dealt with in an open, honest and transparent way, in line with trust policies, procedures and Duty of Candour legislation.
• Maintain and continually develop in-depth specialist knowledge of nursing practice relevant to the individual clinical area.
• Achieve competence in the use of medical devices/equipment by accessing training and maintain these.
• Promote health education within the clinical area and advise patient, family, and others in health promotion issues, making every contact count.
• Promote the health and well-being of staff, patients and their carers.

Person Specification

• Current RPN +/- RN, registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications.
• BSc Degree in relevant field.
• Evidence of recent CPD.
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources.
• An awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area.
• Recent experience of working with children and young people, preferably in a health-based setting.