Band 5 Staff Nurse | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	19 May 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£29,970 - £36,483 Pa pro rata
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	18 June 2025
Location:	Winchester, SO225DG
Company:	Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7204938/251-FCSS4938-RN

Summary

Child Health at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer the opportunity to join as a Staff Nurse on Sophie's Place. 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.

Sophie’s Placeon the Winchester site is an Ambulatory Care Unit where children, who require a specialist Paediatric Consultation, can be seen and assessed. These children are referred from GP’s, Emergency Department, Community Children’s nurses, School Nurses and Health Visitors.



At HHFT, we offer a full and comprehensive orientation package and professional support suited to your individual needs, alongside ongoing support from theClinicalEducation Team, in order for you to achieve your full potential. We offer dedicated QIS / Child learning opportunities, often linked to the wider network, to enhance your continued professional development.

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 patientjourney.

· Developing own clinical practice, knowledge, skills andexperience.

· Acting as a good rolemodel

· 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 areachieved.

· 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 planningcheck

· To develop clinically reasoned treatment, action, and discharge plans and to undertake and evaluate treatment.

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.

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 atHHFT.

· 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 alltimes.

· To adhere to the trust and local Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy at alltimes

· To support the team to ensure and maintaining 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 specifictraining

· To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable as a practitioner for all aspects of the practitioner’s own professionalactivities.

· 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 truststandards.
• Highly developed physical skills for accuracy e.g. of assessment, treatment administration, manipulation ofequipment

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 totreatment.

· To ensure that you 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. e.g. patients who are dysphasic, deaf, blind or have difficulty accepting the diagnosis and act as a patientsadvocate.

· To use effective communication skills of negotiation, persuasion and empathy to enable timely and effective communication in own team the wider MDT team and otheragencies.

· To develop personal capability to optimally support staff who may be in distress or requiring support and then to address issues which may be affecting their performance To ensure that you appropriately regard the individual customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients andstaff

· To empower and motivate those around you to constantly strive to improve care and experience for patients andstaff.



Planning and Organisation:

· To deputise for the team leader in managing the day to day on-going operational requirements of the clinical area, with authority to make decisions as required, keeping the line manager informed as appropriate and escalating issues in a timely fashion ifrequired

· To delegate tasks effectively within the team, to optimise skill mix, flexibility and responsiveness of the team whilst retaining the professional responsibility of appropriatedelegation

· To deal with any issues of professional behaviour or attitudes, quality or safety in themoment.

· To record and report adverse and potentially adverse events to the team leaders, and assist with the investigation of such events, ensuring learning is shared with the widerteam

· 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 – assisting in formulating and adjusting rotas to ensure appropriate number and skill of workforce available when required by the service, meeting the Trusts on-going requirements for roster management, supporting other clinical areas asrequired

· To take responsibility to ensure that staff for whom you have delegated responsibility are released for statutory/mandatory and clinical skills/leadtraining.

· To assist in organising and planning complex case conferences, ensuring patient, carers and the correct range of professions/agencies areincluded.



Teaching, Training and Research Responsibilities

· To have a clinical knowledge across a range of workpractices

· To be aware of the evidence base, current national developments within the speciality and to utilise this knowledge and best practice in supporting the development of clinicalservices

· To support the team in maintaining maintain a broad, clinical skill set within the team to ensure high quality and compassionate care for all patients presenting to the clinicalarea

· 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 appropriate aspects of the Trust wide clinical skills training, working collaboratively with clinical specialist colleagues and supported by the Educationteam

· To assist with the management of assistants through delegation of tasks to assistant grades of staff, monitoring the standards of work through the competencyframework

· To assist in the effective induction and orientation of new staff, to meet specific needs e.g. staff on probationarycontracts.

· To support the achievement of clinical standards and to regularly audit and implement actions to maintain and improve quality andsafety.

· To have an understanding of the methodology of critically reviewing evidence andregularly conduct surveys andaudits.


This advert closes on Monday 2 Jun 2025