- Weekly Hours / Programmed Activities: 37.5
- Salary Band: Band 5
- Staff Group: Nursing and Midwifery Registered
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Job Area: Nursing
Company Description
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
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Registered Nurse in our busy Emergency department at Portsmouth Hospital University Trust.
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.
Job Description
Are you ambitious, motivated, and passionate about nursing? Do you want to make a real difference to every one of your patients? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are seeking qualified, NMC Registered Nurses, to join our fantastic nursing team. We are proud to be developing a team of like-minded individuals, those that can live and breathe our core values, and help us to provide unprecedented levels of care that we know each and every patient deserves.
We know the secret to our success is through investment in our staff, so in return for your passion, dedication, and hard work we promise you:
- Bespoke induction and training programme, based on your needs and aspirations
- Access to our free Beach Hut, on-site gym, swimming pool and nursery
- Superb NHS benefits, including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice for electrical goods, annual leave and pension to name but a few
If you are ready to feel valued, and where your work has real meaning, get in contact with us today!
Key Responsibilities:
- Promote and set high standards of nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust policies, protocols, and guidelines
- Provide and deliver a high standard of evidence-based nursing 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
- Communicate complex/sensitive information with empathy and respect ensuring understanding
Qualifications
- Current RN registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
- BSc Degree in relevant field
Experience
- 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
- Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system
Skills & Knowledge
- Clinically competent at Band 5.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Teaching and mentoring 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
- Ability to adapt to change within working situation
- Intravenous Therapy Skills
Additional Information
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, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
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