Staff Nurse - Surgery

at  University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

The surgical team at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) are delighted to be able to offer a fantastic opportunity for a customer focussed, friendly and enthusiastic Staff Nurse, as part of our expanding service within Surgery.
UHS offers fantastic training and development giving you the best possible opportunities to achieve the career you want. Development of our staff is central to the delivery of high quality, safe and effective care. We can offer opportunities to develop within a supportive environment, and our staff survey results reflect our commitment to facilitate your career progression.
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the ‘Job Description and Main Responsibilities’ section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to.
Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 20% lower than London and 14 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to.
All non-clinical roles may involve a mixture of on-site and remote working, Specific details and flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process. UHS employees can access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 20% lower than London and 14 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.
The surgical nursing team are looking for a high motivated, caring, compassionate and hard working individual to join our friendly E5 lower nursing team for a 10 month secondment who has an interest of caring for patients undergoing colorectal surgery and procedures.
We as a team provide high standards of care for our patients by ensuring that patients have detailed assessments carry out, care plans and implementation of those care plans involving the patient and their families in this decision making, which is then tailored to that individuals needs.
The candidate should be able to explain their skills in demonstrating the importance of identifying attention to detail when caring for patients and having good knowledge and processes of assessing patients care needs and communicating this to the wider team.
We are looking for an individual that can work within a large health care team and maintain accurate records of observations and treatments given to our patients and who are competent and confident to carry our all aspects of nursing care including administration of medications within our agreed policies and procedures.
Communication is a key and central part of nursing and that of working within a large team, therefore the candidate should be able demonstrate the importance of this and be able to give and receive reports of progress of patients, report any concerns or changes with patients condition to the nurse in charge on duty and or the medical staff as appropriate.
The individual should have skills in delegating tasks where appropriate to other members of the nursing team and show that they can priorities their own workload and recognise when they need support.
We will support you in your learning and develop your surgical nursing knowledge and skills with bespoke study days and bedside training together with the surgical education team.
The candidate will be expected to cover a full shifts pattern of days, night and weekend shifts

Please refer the Job description for details