Child Health at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer the opportunity to join as a Staff Nurse on Sophie’s Place . 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.
Sophie’s Place on the Winchester site is an Ambulatory Care Unit where children, who require a specialist Paediatric Consultation, can be seen and assessed. These children are referred from GP’s, Emergency Department, Community Children’s nurses, School Nurses and Health Visitors.
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, in order 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.

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.

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.

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 practitioner’s 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.

Highly developed physical skills for accuracy e.g. of assessment, treatment administration, manipulation of equipment

• 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
• To support the team in maintaining maintain a broad, clinical skill set within the team to ensure high quality and compassionate care for all patients presenting to the clinical area
• To be personally competent to support the development of clinical competency within the clinical area, by assisting in drug and clinical assessments for own staff and to support other areas as needed
• To assist in the delivery of appropriate aspects of the Trust wide clinical skills training, working collaboratively with clinical specialist colleagues and supported by the Education team
• To assist with the management of assistants through delegation of tasks to assistant grades of staff, monitoring the standards of work through the competency framework
• To assist in the effective induction and orientation of new staff, to meet specific needs e.g. staff on probationary contracts.
• To support the achievement of clinical standards and to regularly audit and implement actions to maintain and improve quality and safety.
• To have an understanding of the methodology of critically reviewing evidence and regularly conduct surveys and audits