Band 5 - Neonatal Staff Nurse

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are recruiting for a passionate Band 5 Neonatal Staff Nurse to join their highly skilled team.

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is the largest non-teaching hospital trust in England. With strong local ties and serving around 675,000 residents in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire, they pride themselves on providing comprehensive acute and specialist services.

• Ensuring high quality nursing care is coordinated and delivered using a family focused model of practice.
• Work as part of a cohesive multidisciplinary team ensuring patient care is delivered smoothly and efficiently.
• The expectations within this job description will be achieved through hands‑on clinical practice, education and training and research.

• 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 groups 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.
• Coordinate care for a clinical area once deemed competent to do so.
• Liaise, report and document any relevant nursing/patient needs with other health care professionals with on‑going responsibility for patient care, communicating changes as they occur.
• Ensuring that accurate and timely patient records are maintained.
• Implement the trust ‘values and beliefs’ ensuring they are embedded into everyday practice and evaluate their impact on the patients’ experience.
• Engage and interact with carers/family encouraging them to be actively involved in patient’s care planning care as outlined in the ward/unit philosophy.
• Ensure concerns raised by patients and their families are escalated and dealt with in an open, honest and transparent way, in line with trust policies, procedures and Duty of Candour legislation.
• Maintain and continually develop in‑depth specialist knowledge of nursing practice relevant to the individual clinical area.
• Achieve competence in the use of medical devices/equipment by accessing training and maintain these.
• Promote health education within the clinical area and advise patient, family, and others in health promotion issues, making every contact count. Promote the health and well‑being of staff, patients and their carers.

• Current RN +/- RN, registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
• BSc Degree in relevant field
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Managing resources and contributing to departmental budget
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources
• An awareness of research and evidence based practice relevant to clinical area
• Recent experience of working with children and young people, preferably in a health based setting

• Weekly salary.
• Staffing Bank workers can contribute to their NHS pension.
• Priority of shifts over all agency workers.

Apply now for this fantastic opportunity by uploading your CV, and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch.