Job summary
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Main duties of the job
This post is only open for applications for individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Care System
Organisations within scope are as follows:
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
- Southern Health Foundation Trust
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
- University Hospital Southampton
- Solent NHS Trust
- South Central Ambulance Service
- Isle of Wight NHS Trust
- Hampshire Hospitals
Location: This post will be mainly based at Queen Alexandra Hospital but there will be an opportunity to work at our offsite clinics in Chichester, Fareham and Gosport so own transport is essential
This is a Part time position - 22.5 hours per week
Agenda for Change Band 5 - £29,970 - £36,483 - Pro rata
We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our skilled motivated team in ENT outpatient Department.
We are looking for a band 5 staff nurse who is interested in developing skills in caring for patients with complex head and neck conditions.
The successful candidate will support us to ensure the continued delivery of high-quality patient care ensuring correct skill mix to deliver the specialist complex care required for this group of patients.
We are keen to develop new staff and support them to learn this speciality.
We are focussed on the key performance indicators to maintain safety and quality, and this is sustained by ensuring the correct work force with the correct skills and knowledge.
About us
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
Ensuring
high quality 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:
Clinical and Professional
Promote and set high
standards of care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust
policies, protocols and guidelines.
Provide and
deliver a high standard of evidence based 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.
Communicating and
working with the multidisciplinary team to improve quality of care, and
informed clinical decisions. Promote
innovation and share any new ideas to improve patient care.
Participate
in the allocation of workload.
Liaise,
report and document any relevant patient needs with other health care
professionals with on-going responsibility for patient care, communicating
changes as they occur.
Ensuring
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 carers/family encouraging them to be actively involved in
patients care planning care 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.
Please refer to the Job description for further details:
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
Ensuring
high quality 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:
Clinical and Professional
Promote and set high
standards of care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust
policies, protocols and guidelines.
Provide and
deliver a high standard of evidence based 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.
Communicating and
working with the multidisciplinary team to improve quality of care, and
informed clinical decisions. Promote
innovation and share any new ideas to improve patient care.
Participate
in the allocation of workload.
Liaise,
report and document any relevant patient needs with other health care
professionals with on-going responsibility for patient care, communicating
changes as they occur.
Ensuring
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 carers/family encouraging them to be actively involved in
patients care planning care 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.
Please refer to the Job description for further details:
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current RN registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
- BSc Degree in relevant field
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of recent CPD Managing resources and contributing to departmental budget
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources
- An awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area
Desirable
- Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system
Additional criteria
Essential
- Clinically competent at Band 5.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Teaching and mentoring skills
- Team building skills
- Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others
- Organisational skills and able to work as part of a team
- Able to support development of others
- Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
- Health promotion
- Advocacy skills
- Strong customer service skills
Desirable
- Ability to adapt to change within working situation
- Intravenous Therapy Skills
- Mentors Course
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current RN registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
- BSc Degree in relevant field
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of recent CPD Managing resources and contributing to departmental budget
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources
- An awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area
Desirable
- Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system
Additional criteria
Essential
- Clinically competent at Band 5.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Teaching and mentoring skills
- Team building skills
- Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others
- Organisational skills and able to work as part of a team
- Able to support development of others
- Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
- Health promotion
- Advocacy skills
- Strong customer service skills
Desirable
- Ability to adapt to change within working situation
- Intravenous Therapy Skills
- Mentors Course
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).
