Job summary
Are you a Newly Qualified Paediatric Nurse and are committed to providing excellent care? Do you have a desire to develop as a professional with a friendly, kind and supportive team to guide you on your journey? If this is you, come and join our team.

We care for children from 0 through to their 18th birthday, with a variety of needs which will increase your knowledge and skills and keep you challenged. We have practice educators, nurse specialists, play specialists who are all part of our team along with physiotherapists, dieticians, pharmacists and of course the medical team. Together we make an amazing award-winning team which is reflected in our high staff retention.

For newly qualified staff we offer the Wessex preceptorship programme, which is an ideal opportunity to consolidate skills and progress over the first year of your career.

Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities

• Promote and set high standards of nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust policies, protocols and guidelines.
• Provide and deliver a high standard of evidence-based nursing care through the assessment, planning, and evaluating of individual patients needs based on evidence. Initiate and co-ordinate care in the clinical area for a specified group of patients.
• Recognise and respond to a change in patient status undertaking first line interventions within scope of practice and refer on to the appropriate clinician as required.
• Actively promote safe and effective working practices to prevent harm to the patients within your care and take part in safety audits to maintain high quality standards.
• Communicating and working with the multidisciplinary team to improve quality of care, and informed clinical decisions. Promote innovation and share any new ideas to improve patient care.
• Participate in the allocation of workload and ensure efficient bed management and effective patient flow.

About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Job responsibilities
Job Responsibilities:

• Liaise, report and document any relevant nursing/patient needs with other health care professionals with on-going responsibility for patient care, communicating changes as they occur.
• Ensuring that accurate and timely patient records are maintained.
• Implement the trust values and beliefs ensuring they are embedded into everyday practice and evaluate their impact on the patients experience.
• Engage and interact with parents/carers encouraging them to be actively involved in patients care planning care as outlined in the ward/unit philosophy.
• Ensure concerns raised by patients and their families are escalated and dealt with in an open, honest and transparent way, in line with trust policies, procedures and Duty of Candour legislation.
• Maintain and continually develop in-depth specialist knowledge of nursing practice relevant to the individual clinical area.
• Achieve competence in the use of medical devices/equipment by accessing training and maintain these.
• Promote health education within the clinical area and advise patient, family, and others in health promotion.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Current RN registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
• BSc Degree in relevant field.

Desirable

• Relevant qualifications required or course to area.

Experience
Essential

• An awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area.

Skills and Knowledge
Essential

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Teaching and mentoring skills
• Team building skills.
• Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others.
• Organisational skills and able to work as part of a team.
• Able to support development of others.
• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
• Knowledge of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Health promotion.
• Advocacy skills.
• Able and willing to work flexible shift patterns, internal rotation to day and night duty and unsocial hours, according to service needs.

Desirable

• Ability to adapt to change within working situation.
• Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.