Job overview
Do you want an exciting development opportunity enabling you to gain valuable experience in change that will help shape the future of care for acutely ill or injured children in Basingstoke Emergency Department?
We are seeking dynamic, motivated and passionate band 5 Paediatric Nurses either Newly Qualified or with experience with a drive for providing high quality care to help shape the future of our department.
This role is also open to those who are dual qualified.
Main duties of the job
We seek someone with ideas and drive to help continue to improve the care delivered to children and the experience they have in the department with a passion of advocating for children and their families.
The main duties of this role are to provide nursing care to children with a wide range of medical, surgical, and orthopaedic conditions. You will care for these children in many areas of the department including our own personal Paediatric Resuscitation Bay.
You would be responsible for the delivery of expert care to children and supporting adult nursing colleagues in understanding how to provide the best possible care to children.
We will also teach you and help you expand on your existing skills including (but not limited to) Plastering, wound care, venepuncture and cannulation and the care of the critically ill child/young person.
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 with NMC as a Children’s or dual field nurse or adult registered nurse with significant clinical experience working in a children’s clinical environment
2. Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and skills gained through any combination of alternative study, or employment experience
Desirable criteria
3. Additional Post graduate learning in specialist field including master’s degree or working towards
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. Hospital or acute experience
5. Knowledge and experience of a range of approaches to the management of patients utilising clinical reasoning
6. Multidisciplinary team working
7. Understanding of accountability
Desirable criteria
8. Emergency Department Experience
9. Assessor/Supervisor training
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
10. Desire to work in Emergency Department
11. Ability to cope with working in a stressful and unpredictable environment
Desirable criteria
12. ILS/PILS