Staff Nurse Private Patients Clinic - 12 Months Maternity Cover

at  Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The role is a primary function supporting the team for the optimal care of our patients. The delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate health care to our private patients of the Candover Clinic which is part of Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust is the most important objective for the organisation.

• 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 pre-assessment of patients using appropriate investigative and history taking skills.
• Ability to undertake practical clinical skills such as assisting consultants with clinical procedures as well as ability to work independently to provide optimal clinical services to the patients.
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and have judgment to seek guidance as required.

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.
Supporting senior nursing team with the day to day running of the OPD.
Bookings management to include booking patients for pre assessment, bloods and other appointments. Maintaining the OPD diary and coordinating with other MDT.
Setting up clinic for daily use following consultant preferences.
To take on the role of BLS train the trainer as a champion for the PP business unit.
Pre assessment of patients prior to surgery
Venepuncture and Cannulation
Assisting with minor operations.
Wound Care, urology clinics, flow rates, gynaecology clinic to include chaperoning and assisting with biopsy’s, fitting and removal of coils and implants.
Stock rotation and management.
Occasionally assisting with the candover suite and minor procedures unit when needed

• 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 pre-assessment of patients using appropriate investigative and history taking skills.
• Ability to undertake practical clinical skills such as assisting consultants with clinical procedures as well as ability to work independently to provide optimal clinical services to the patients.
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and have judgment to seek guidance as required