Overview
Child Health at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer the opportunity to join as a Newly Qualified 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 roles in various clinical areas throughout the Unit, including the acute units, assessment units and the neonatal units. We are keen to meet you if you are interested in starting your career with us in any of these areas across both Basingstoke and Winchester sites. HHFT offers a full and comprehensive orientation package and professional support suited to your individual needs, alongside ongoing support from the Clinical Education Team, to help you achieve your full potential. We register all NQN's onto the Wessex Child or Neonatal preceptorship programme, with support from the HHFT Child Health education team.
Responsibilities
* 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 to ensure that clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care and that all compliance requirements such as CQC and contractual requirements are achieved.
* Undertaking 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.
* Developing clinically reasoned treatment, action, and discharge plans and to undertake and evaluate treatment.
Our Vision and Service Context
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.
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 speciality 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 eg. 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 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 to address issues which may be affecting their performance, while respecting 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 operational requirements of the clinical area, with authority to make decisions as required, keeping the line manager informed and escalating issues in a timely fashion if required.
* To delegate tasks effectively within the team to optimise skill mix, flexibility and responsiveness while retaining professional responsibility.
* 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 and assist with investigations, 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, including formulating and adjusting rotas to meet service requirements and roster management.
* To ensure staff delegated to you 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 clinical knowledge across a range of work practices.
* To be aware of the evidence base and current national developments within the specialty and utilise this knowledge to support 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.
* 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 aspects of the Trust-wide clinical skills training, working 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, including probationary contracts.
* To support the achievement of clinical standards and to regularly audit and implement actions to maintain and improve quality and safety.
* To understand the methodology of critically reviewing evidence and regularly conduct surveys and audits.
This advert closes on Sunday 3 May 2026
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