Bank Staff Nurse
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Job overview
Are you an experienced registered staff nurse looking for a rewarding opportunity to develop your professional skills and gain experience in new areas?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Bank Staff Nurses to join our friendly and enthusiastic nursing teams within Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust. We are currently offering a range of shifts to suit you including weekdays, weekends, earlies, lates, long days and nights.
Main duties of the job
Becoming a Bank Staff Nurse gives you the opportunity to gain experience within a variety of different clinical areas and specialties working alongside a multi-disciplinary team of healthcare support workers, doctors, and various other professionals.
Please note that we will require evidence of IV training via certificates.
Working for our organisation
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) provides hospital services to around 570,000 people living in Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire, and specialist services to patients from all over the country. We deliver a full range of district hospital services in a variety of locations.
We offer our dedicated, motivated, and invaluable team of Bank nurses the following benefits:
- Flexibility to choose shifts to create a better work/life balance Use of an app to self-book shifts at your leisure
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Paid trust induction and mandatory training including e-learning Experience a 'variety of departments
- Unsocial hours enhancements Weekly or monthly pay
- Support with revalidation
- Dedicated Clinical Lead to Support Bank Nurses
If you are a committed, friendly, and reliable nurse who is passionate about making a difference and enjoys working in a busy and challenging environment we would love to hear from you
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria- Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and skills through any combination of alternative study, or employment experience
- Professional UK registration e.g. NMC, HPC
- Computer literate
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria- Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) clearly recorded for professional profile
- Completed clinical placements in a variety of areas
- Knowledge of the management of in-patients and outpatients including evidence based strategies
- Knowledge and experience of a range of approaches to the management of patients utilising clinical reasoning
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Understanding of Health Environment policies and legislation including Clinical, HR, E&D, Governance
- Adherence to current statutory requirements, standards and regulations
- Awareness of local and national agenda within the speciality
- Experience of staff supervision
- Awareness of local and national agenda within the speciality
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria- Ability to demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust Values
- Ability to communicate written and verbal information in English, keeping legible and accurate notes
- Able to present information, written and orally in a clear and logical manner
- Good communication skills to communicate complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner
- Understands the legal responsibilities of the profession
- Show evidence of being self-motivated and motivate others
- Be able to demonstrate initiative
- Have a flexible approach
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
- Ability to work with the multi/interdisciplinary team and set goals
- Customer service experience i.e. dealing within complaints
Our commitment to you:
We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
The paperwork:
- HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
- Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
- All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
- In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
- This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.