Newly Qualified Paediatric Nurse

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.

• 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.

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Teaching and mentoring 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
• Able and willing to work flexible shift patterns, internal rotation to day and night duty and unsocial hours, according to service needs
• Ability to adapt to change within working situation
• Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system

NHS Band 5: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum

Hours Per Week: full time 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

Essential

• Current RN registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
• BSc Degree in relevant field
• An awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area

Desirable

• Relevant qualifications required or course to area

We offer benefits including an on-site nursery, access to a free Beach Hut for those long summer days, an on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Dis Ability, and awards ceremonies to recognise 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, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.