Band 5 Paediatric Staff Nurse in Basingstoke

Child Health at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer the opportunity to join as a Staff Nurse on G2. As an integrated service, we pride ourselves in delivering health care at the point of need and are one of the few such organised services within the UK.

Ward G2 on the Basingstoke site is a 20-24 bedded unit that provides care for children who require admission as an emergency, from The Emergency Department (ED), Charlie’s Day Unit (CDU) or Hants Doc (GPs). Children may also be booked in for treatment with Oncology, Orthopaedic, General Surgical or Medical problems.

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, in order for you to achieve your full potential. We offer dedicated QIS / Child learning opportunities, often linked to the wider network, to enhance your continued professional development.

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 patient journey.
• Developing own clinical practice, knowledge, skills and experience.
• Acting as a good role model.
• 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 are achieved.
• 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 planning.
• To develop clinically reasoned treatment, action, and discharge plans and to undertake and evaluate treatment.

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.

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.

Professional Practice:

• To adhere to the NMC Code (2018), alongside Trust Policies and procedures.
• As a clinician to embrace and implement the vision and values at HHFT.
• To be responsible for contributing to the creation and maintenance of a clinical environment in which care and compassion is consistently demonstrated, ensuring patient centred care, privacy and dignity is practiced at all times.
• To adhere to the trust and local Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy at all times.
• To support the team to ensure and maintain a high quality seven-day, twenty-four-hour service for all aspects of their work and the staff in their area/department.
• To maintain, develop and record your own continuing professional development, including booking and attending all statutory, mandatory and Trust or specialty specific training.
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable as a practitioner for all aspects of the practitioner’s own professional activities.
• To deputise for the team leaders to achieve the effective daily management of the ward/department including responding to urgent requests, prioritising clinical work, and balancing other patient related and professional activities in accordance with trust standards.
• Highly developed physical skills for accuracy e.g. of assessment, treatment administration, manipulation of equipment.

Communication:

• To be personally competent to assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• To ensure that you communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to seriously ill patients, carers and other staff, including imparting unwelcome news and ensuring understanding of their condition.
• To use effective communication skills of negotiation, persuasion and empathy to enable timely and effective communication in own team, the wider MDT team and other agencies.
• To develop personal capability to optimally support staff who may be in distress or requiring support and then to address issues which may be affecting their performance.
• To ensure that you appropriately regard the individual customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients and staff.
• To empower and motivate those around you to constantly strive to improve care and experience for patients and staff.

Planning and Organisation:

• To deputise for the team leader in managing the day to day on-going operational requirements of the clinical area, with authority to make decisions as required, keeping the line manager informed as appropriate and escalating issues in a timely fashion if required.
• To delegate tasks effectively within the team, to optimise skill mix, flexibility and responsiveness of the team whilst retaining the professional responsibility of appropriate delegation.
• To deal with any issues of professional behaviour or attitudes, quality or safety in the moment.
• To record and report adverse and potentially adverse events to the team leaders, and assist with the investigation of such events, ensuring learning is shared with the wider team.
• To ensure all care delivered empowers patients to recover their independence at the earliest opportunity.
• To support the team leaders in ensuring safe and effective clinical services – assisting in formulating and adjusting rotas to ensure appropriate number and skill of workforce available when required by the service, meeting the Trust's ongoing requirements for roster management, supporting other clinical areas as required.
• To take responsibility to ensure that staff for whom you have delegated responsibility are released for statutory/mandatory and clinical skills/lead training.
• To assist in organising and planning complex case conferences, ensuring patient, carers and the correct range of professions/agencies are included.

Teaching, Training and Research Responsibilities:

• To have a clinical knowledge across a range of work practices.
• To be aware of the evidence base, current national developments within the specialty and to utilise this knowledge and best practice in supporting the development of clinical services.
• To support the team in maintaining a broad, clinical skill set within the team to ensure high quality and compassionate care for all patients presenting to the clinical area.
• To be personally competent to support the development of clinical competency within the clinical area, by assisting in drug and clinical assessments for own staff and to support other areas as needed.
• To assist in the delivery of appropriate aspects of the Trust wide clinical skills training, working collaboratively with clinical specialist colleagues and supported by the Education team.
• To assist with the management of assistants through delegation of tasks to assistant grades of staff, monitoring the standards of work through the competency framework.
• To assist in the effective induction and orientation of new staff, to meet specific needs e.g. staff on probationary contracts.
• To support the achievement of clinical standards and to regularly audit and implement actions to maintain and improve quality and safety.
• To have an understanding of the methodology of critically reviewing evidence and regularly conduct surveys and audits.

Training and qualifications:

• Registered Nurse, with Experience.
• Computer Literate.
• Aware of HHFT Trust Core Values.
• Experience of staff and student supervision.

Experience and Knowledge:

• Experience of working within Child Health.
• Experience of working within a Day assessment unit.

Skills and ability:

• Ability to demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values.
• Customer care experience and dealing with complaints.

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

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

HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

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