Job summary
Solent wants the best from you so can deliver the best quality care to our patients!
Portsmouth Rehabilitation and Reablement Team (PRRT) is a Health and Social Care team where no two days are the same. We are looking for individuals who want to make a real difference.
Our Senior Nurses will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills, using them to engage, persuade or negotiate with clients with complex, at times challenging needs to ensure they are provided with the most appropriate care and support.
Working in Portsmouth offers a diverse inner-city client base where we provide reablement services to help individuals reach their goals in a responsive time with wrap around support to optimally manage their needs at home and avoid unnecessary admissions into hospital.
We need you to travel across the city to visit our patients so ideally, you will have access to your own car. We also have pool cars which can be used by people with full UK driving licences and if you want to use your own, you can claim mileage!
The working world has changed but our ability to provide quality care to the communities in Portsmouth has only improved! Join us to consistently deliver exceptional care by the right professional at the right time.
Main duties of the job
- Assess patient/client, plan develop/implement/evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures to achieve best health outcome for patient/client/family/health needs as well as actively promote health and wellbeing
- Evaluate clinical outcome and report variance to clinical pathway, protocols, or best practice guidelines
- Contribute to effective discharge planning and/or referral process to health care provider and support agencies to meet identified health needs
- Apply diagnostic reasoning and professional judgement to nursing practice
- Manage daily care of patient/client and when required manage care in the absence of senior colleagues
- Foster inquiry and critical thinking amongst colleagues to advance nursing practice and patient/client care to ensure the provision of positive patient/client outcomes and person-centred care
- Accurately document assessments of patients/client's health status, diagnosis and response to nursing and other interventions and treatments
- Effectively manage clinical care and area through the implementation of clearly defined policies and procedures
- Educate and provide information to patients/clients/family to improve knowledge of illness, self-management prevention of complications and promotion of recovery
- Role model safe nursing practice and report poor practice when observed
- Practice in accordance with legal, ethical, culturally safe, and professional standards including the Code of practice
About us
Make a difference with us
If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.
We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.
To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access
To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work
To deliver the best value for money
Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.
In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.
We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.
We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC
- Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality
- Teaching Qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
- Practice assessor/supervisor
Experience
Essential
- Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans
- Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients
- Experience of MDT working
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students
- Evidence of recent CPD
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, ability to receive and provide complex information which may be sensitive, contentious, where persuasive negotiation may be required and there could be barriers to understanding
- Ability to work autonomously; prioritise workload, instruct and direct others, work is managed rather than supervised; works within clear code of practice
- Problem solving skills
- Advocacy skills
- Teaching, supervision and assessing skills
- Dexterity required for intravenous and intramuscular injections, inserting catheters, setting up syringe drivers, removal of sutures, wound management
- Assess patient/clients plan develop/implement programmes of care conditions, using judgement when assessing /evaluating patients' conditions
- Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others
- Frequent need to deal with managing emotional issues
- Ability to adapt to change within work situation
- Understanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotion
- Understanding of a range of clinical approaches
- Awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area
- Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
- Knowledge of health promotion
- Is able to work legally in the UK
- Is able to work with children and vulnerable adults
- Ability to travel for meetings across a range of sites in Southampton/Portsmouth/Hampshire as required for role.
- For posts which require a professional registration, postholders hold a valid up to date registration with their professional body.
- For posts where postholders are required to drive as part of their role they hold a valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC
- Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality
- Teaching Qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
- Practice assessor/supervisor
Experience
Essential
- Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans
- Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients
- Experience of MDT working
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students
- Evidence of recent CPD
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, ability to receive and provide complex information which may be sensitive, contentious, where persuasive negotiation may be required and there could be barriers to understanding
- Ability to work autonomously; prioritise workload, instruct and direct others, work is managed rather than supervised; works within clear code of practice
- Problem solving skills
- Advocacy skills
- Teaching, supervision and assessing skills
- Dexterity required for intravenous and intramuscular injections, inserting catheters, setting up syringe drivers, removal of sutures, wound management
- Assess patient/clients plan develop/implement programmes of care conditions, using judgement when assessing /evaluating patients' conditions
- Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others
- Frequent need to deal with managing emotional issues
- Ability to adapt to change within work situation
- Understanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotion
- Understanding of a range of clinical approaches
- Awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area
- Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
- Knowledge of health promotion
- Is able to work legally in the UK
- Is able to work with children and vulnerable adults
- Ability to travel for meetings across a range of sites in Southampton/Portsmouth/Hampshire as required for role.
- For posts which require a professional registration, postholders hold a valid up to date registration with their professional body.
- For posts where postholders are required to drive as part of their role they hold a valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
