Job overview

Child Health at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer the opportunity to join us as a Newly qualified Staff Nurse.  We have a variety of vacancies available within the Child and Health, across both sites of Basingstoke and Winchester.  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.

Child Health has an Acute and Ambulatory and Neonatal unit on each site, as well as an Emergency Department all with potential opportunities for Child Field Nurses. Available vacancies will be identified on the open day, and preferences taken into account. 

At Hampshire Hospitals, 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 offer dedicated QIS / Child learning opportunities, often linked to the wider network, to enhance your continued professional development. As a Newly Qualified Nurse, we automatically register you for the Wessex and Thames Valley preceptorship programme (Paediatric or Neonatal).

An Open Day is planned, with interviews taking place the same day:

Basingstoke : 8th March 

Main duties of the job

To support the team in the delivery of the service, which 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.

·         Act 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.

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.

Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search HHFT Climate Action or [email protected].