Staff Nurse - Paediatrics

We have a unique, caring and inclusive team who are delighted to be responsible for the care of Children and Young People from 5 days to 18 years old, across Hampshire. Our department has a 4 bedded High Dependency Unit and 22 inpatient beds. We have close links with our Paediatric Assessment Unit, Neonatal Unit, Children's Outpatient Department, Paediatric A&E and our Children's Community Nursing Teams as well as our regional Children's Hospital in Southampton. We promote strong interdepartmental and cross-site working relationships with both Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital.
You will be keen to promote clinical excellence as part of a highly motivated team.
Open to newly qualified applicants and those qualifying in September 2024., With minimal supervision, be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care, recognising individual patient needs.
+ To ensure religious, emotional and psychological support for patients/Families
+ To give and receive adequate and appropriate handover reports in matters relating to patient care, ensuring that staff have an up-to-date knowledge of the patient's condition so that appropriate nursing care can be given.
+ To participate in setting and maintaining standards of patient care based on
Sound research findings.
+ In consultation with the team leader, be adaptable in terms of patient allocation to meet the changing needs of patients and other staff members.
+ Provide legible and comprehensive patient records to agreed Trust and NMC standards and guidelines.
+ To liaise with Team Leader on untoward incidents, complaints and Team/Staff issues.
+ To act in accordance with trust policies and nursing procedure, + To assist and carry out all administrative duties as delegated by the Team leader, being responsible for the security and recording of patient valuables.
+ To comply with the Trust's fire precautions and procedures for evacuation
+ Demonstrate a sound knowledge of infection control standards and promote these within ward environment.
+ To ensure confidentiality of information regarding patients, families and friends at all times.
+ To promote people's equality, diversity and rights
+ To communicate on a regular basis with staff regarding the Trust's objectives, plans and business developments.
+ To contribute towards individual &Team objectives
+ To train and develop members of staff
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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