Job overview
Are you a newly qualified nurse / about to receive your NMC PIN looking for your first staff nurse role, or a more experienced nurse who would like a change in speciality or environment? We have opportunities in our ED Department.
A Band 5 Staff Nurse is responsible for the comprehensive assessment of patients using the A to E approach. The focus of the role is to provide safe, supportive and effective patient care of the highest quality whilst working alongside a dedicated multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
What we look for:
Enthusiastic and motivated team players with a strong interest in emergency medicine.
Nurses who pride themselves on excellent quality care and making a difference in a busy and challenging environment.
Acute medical and front line experience and a desire to work in an Emergency Care Setting.
What we offer:
We are committed to developing and supporting our nursing workforce and will provide you with in house training with an excellent induction programme
An exciting opportunity to work in a newly expanded emergency department which includes a paediatric and rapid assessment area.
The department is working towards the emergency care association competency framework by the RCN.
Your life outside HHFT is important and the Trust are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview.
Working for our organisation
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.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Professional UK registration e.g. NMC, HPC
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
2. Hospital or acute experience
3. Knowledge and experience of a range of approaches to the management of patients utilising clinical reasoning
4. Multidisciplinary team working
5. Understanding of accountability
Desirable criteria
6. Emergency Department Experience
7. Assessor/Supervisor training
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
8. Desire to work in Emergency Department
9. Ability to cope with working in a stressful and unpredictable environment
Desirable criteria
10. ILS/PILS