Band 5 Children’s Nurse

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 patient journey.

Developing own clinical practice, knowledge, skills and experience.

Acting as a good role model

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 are achieved.

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 planning check

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

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.

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.

Training and qualifications

Essential: - Registered Nurse, with Experience; - Children's Nurse qualification; - Computer Literate

Desirable: - Continued professional CPD; - Aware of HHFT Trust Core Values; - Experience of staff and student supervision

Experience and Knowledge

Essential: - Experience of working within Child Health

Desirable: - HCSW experience within Child Health, Neonatal Unit

Skills and ability

Essential: - oAbility to demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values.

Desirable: - Customer care experience and dealing with complaints