Newly Qualified Paediatric 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.

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 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 specific training

To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable as a practitioner for all aspects of the practitioners 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.

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 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 patients advocate.

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 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 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 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 if required

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

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 to the team leaders, and assist with the investigation of such events, 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 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 as required

To take responsibility to ensure that staff for whom you have delegated responsibility 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 a clinical knowledge across a range of work practices

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 clinical services

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

Experience and Knowledge

Skills and ability