Band 5 Children’s Nurse

Job overview

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Child Health team is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Children’s Nurse to join our dedicated Children’s Unit.

As an integrated service, we take pride in delivering high-quality, compassionate care to children and their families when and where they need it. We are proud to be one of the few services of this kind in the UK.

We have opportunities across a range of clinical areas, including the Acute Children’s Unit, Day Surgical Unit and Neonatal Unit in Winchester. We welcome applications from nurses looking to begin or develop their careers in paediatric nursing within a supportive and dynamic team.

Positions are available across our Basingstoke and Winchester sites, offering the opportunity to gain valuable experience and contribute to delivering excellent care to children and their families.

At HHFT, we offer a full and comprehensive orientation package and professional support suited to your individual needs, alongside ongoing support from the Clinical Education Team, for you to achieve your full potential. We register all NQN's onto the Wessex Child or Neonatal preceptorship programme, with support from the HHFT Child Health education team

Main duties of the job

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.

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.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.