Staff Nurse

Job overview

Are you a newly qualified nurse looking for their first staff nurse role, or a more experienced nurse who would like a change in speciality or environment?

Our patients are admitted with a wide variety of illnesses and other general medical conditions. You will be welcomed into a friendly team who is committed to providing a high standard of individualised care for all our patients.

Please do reach out to the Matron for Bartlett, Haley, at if you would more information.

Main duties of the job

As part of our team you will be committed to providing a safe and high standard of care to our patients, and share our passion for developing your professional and clinical skills and knowledge. Our commitment to you will be to provide you with a supportive and nurturing environment to ensure you have access to every learning opportunity. We work closely with all members of the multi-disciplinary team in a challenging and rewarding environment, and you will be well supported by the senior nursing team led by our Clinical Matron. You will have the opportunity to have regular 1:1's with senior members of the team to support you in your new role. You will have excellent communication skills, have a caring and compassionate nature, and be supported to learn and develop new clinical and leadership skills within your role.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Desireable

Essential criteria

• Cannulation and Venepuncture

Essential

Essential criteria

• Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and skills gained through any combination of alternative study, or employment experience

essential

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Essential

Essential criteria

• Student Nurse awaiting NMC PIN/registration
• Experience during placements and in clinical setting
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Desirable criteria

• Experience of staff supervision
• Customer service experience i.e. dealing with complaints
• Awareness of local and national agenda within the speciality