Job summary
Child Health at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer the opportunity to join as a Bank Nurse for Child Health. 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.
We have opportunities for working across all areas of Child Health: one of the acute units, G2 and Northbrook; Day Assessment Units, Charlie's Day Unit and Sophie's Place, and also the neonatal units. These are across the two sites of Winchester and Basingstoke.
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.
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 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 check.
- To develop clinically reasoned treatment, action, and discharge plans and to undertake and evaluate treatment.
About us
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) provides hospital services to around 570,000 people living in Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire, and specialist services to patients from all over the country. We deliver a full range of district hospital services in a variety of locations.
We offer our dedicated, motivated, and invaluable team of Bank nurses the following benefits:
- Flexibility to choose shifts to create a better work/life balance Use of an app to self-book shifts at your leisure
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Paid trust induction and mandatory training including e-learning Experience a 'variety of departments
- Unsocial hours enhancements Weekly or monthly pay
- Support with revalidation
- Dedicated Clinical Lead to Support Bank Nurses
If you are a committed, friendly, and reliable nurse who is passionate about making a difference and enjoys working in a busy and challenging environment we would love to hear from you
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse (Diploma / Degree)
- Registered Nurse (Part 1, 8, 12 or 15)
- Professional UK registration e.g. NMC
- Computer Literate
Desirable
- Registered Children's Nurse
- Evidence of recent study
- Previous qualification or experience in relevant speciality
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) clearly recorded for professional profile
- Completed clinical placements in a variety of areas
- Knowledge of the management of in-patients and outpatients including evidence-based strategies.
- Knowledge and experience of a range of approaches to the management of patients utilising clinical reasoning.
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Understanding of Health Environment policies and legislation including Clinical, HR, E&D, Governance
- Adherence to current statutory requirements, standards and regulations.
- Ability to demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values.
- Able to present information, written and orally in a clear and logical manner
- Good communication skills to communicate complex, sensitive, or confidential information in an appropriate manner.
- Understands the legal responsibilities of the profession.
- Show evidence of being self-motivated and motivate others.
- Be able to demonstrate initiative.
- Have a flexible approach
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.
- Ability to work with the multi/interdisciplinary team and set goals.
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for clinical services including experience of quality issues and audit.
- Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and
- Safely meet the differing needs of the patients
- Able to carry out moderate to intense physical effort frequently throughout the working day and to carry out concurrent activities.
- Ability to cope with working in a stressful and unpredictable environment
- Evidence of clinical skills appropriate to Child Health / Neonatal care.
- Applies a good understanding of Equality & Diversity in all areas of work.
- Should be willing to work flexible hours across all areas of Child Health as per requirement.
Desirable
- Experience of staff supervision
- Awareness of local and national agenda within the speciality
- Customer service experience i.e. dealing with complaints.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse (Diploma / Degree)
- Registered Nurse (Part 1, 8, 12 or 15)
- Professional UK registration e.g. NMC
- Computer Literate
Desirable
- Registered Children's Nurse
- Evidence of recent study
- Previous qualification or experience in relevant speciality
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) clearly recorded for professional profile
- Completed clinical placements in a variety of areas
- Knowledge of the management of in-patients and outpatients including evidence-based strategies.
- Knowledge and experience of a range of approaches to the management of patients utilising clinical reasoning.
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Understanding of Health Environment policies and legislation including Clinical, HR, E&D, Governance
- Adherence to current statutory requirements, standards and regulations.
- Ability to demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values.
- Able to present information, written and orally in a clear and logical manner
- Good communication skills to communicate complex, sensitive, or confidential information in an appropriate manner.
- Understands the legal responsibilities of the profession.
- Show evidence of being self-motivated and motivate others.
- Be able to demonstrate initiative.
- Have a flexible approach
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.
- Ability to work with the multi/interdisciplinary team and set goals.
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for clinical services including experience of quality issues and audit.
- Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and
- Safely meet the differing needs of the patients
- Able to carry out moderate to intense physical effort frequently throughout the working day and to carry out concurrent activities.
- Ability to cope with working in a stressful and unpredictable environment
- Evidence of clinical skills appropriate to Child Health / Neonatal care.
- Applies a good understanding of Equality & Diversity in all areas of work.
- Should be willing to work flexible hours across all areas of Child Health as per requirement.
Desirable
- Experience of staff supervision
- Awareness of local and national agenda within the speciality
- Customer service experience i.e. dealing with complaints.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
