Staff Nurse - Child Health
Band 5
- Main area
- Child Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 188-NM2815-C
- Site
- Southampton General Hospital
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £27,055 - £32,934 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/04/2023 23:59
Job overview
We’re looking for child trained Nurses to join our team at Southampton Children’s Hospital, part of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS). We’re a major centre for specialist paediatric services across the south of England, providing acute specialist care to our local population as well as a wider geographical area that includes the Isle of Wight and Channel Islands.
Southampton Children’s Hospital is the only paediatric trauma unit outside of London and across the south of England. In addition to the teams outlined below, we also have a children’s emergency and trauma department (which you can read about in the emergency medicine advert) and neonatal services (which you can read about in the women’s and newborn advert).
Please review our about our teams documents for more information about the different units.
If you are currently an overseas nurse – please do not apply for this post and instead send your CV to internationalrecruitment@uhs.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
You can read an overview of the main duties of the role in the section below: Job Description and Main Responsibilities.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents attached.
Working for our organisation
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. UHS is rated ‘Good’ by the CQC and in the latest national NHS Staff Survey, we were in the top 10 acute trusts for staff engagement and for staff recommending the hospital as a place to work or receive care.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. UHS employees are able to 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Provide a high standard of specialised care to all our patients
Communicate effectively with our patients and carers, ensuring barriers are reviewed and solutions are implemented and shared across the multidisciplinary teams
Ensure accurate records of observations, treatment and family/patient care is recorded in adherence to NMC and Trust standards
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for experienced staff nurses that want to support the Children’s Hospital in ensuring patient centred care is provided across all specialities. We are looking for you to be able to demonstrate evidence of on-going personal development, excellent communication skills and evidence of how you have understood and potentially used evidence-based practice in your clinical work.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Should you have any queries, please use the contact details below to get in touch.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified nurse
- NMC registered or registration pending
- Evidence of on-going personal development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current issues within acute health services
- Understanding of personal accountability
- Awareness of responsibilities for management of infection control
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to deal with stressful situations
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of learning needs
Living the Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Patients First
- Working Together
- Always Improving
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
For more information about our Trust
- Our values and vision
- Our services and teams
- Benefits we offer our staff
- UK professional body registration
- Information about our city
- Relocating to Southampton
- Our fantastic staff and their work
To find out what our staff think about working here, you may also wish to look at our most recent friends and family test and NHS staff survey results, or our latest CQC report.
Getting to work - our travel promise
Getting to work should be as easy as possible and that’s why we have introduced the UHS travel promise – a commitment from the Trust that we will provide reasonable travel options for every member of staff. Every member of staff can apply for a permit to use our park & ride facility. Eligibility for on-site parking is dependent on the nature and requirement of the role. All staff can also access a range of discounted benefits relating to travel including reduced price bus tickets, purchase of salary sacrifice bikes and ultra-low emission cars.
Our commitment to equality
Equality remains at the centre of our policymaking, service delivery, and employment practice, giving all employees equal opportunity to develop, apply for promotions, and have working arrangements that enable them to achieve a manageable work-life balance.
UHS actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for managers and staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development, and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status and age.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sue Nichols
- Job title
- Recruitment Retention Lead
- Email address
- sue.nichols@uhs.nhs.uk
- Telephone number
- 02381206525
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- Telephone
- 01629 690826
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