Staff Nurse - Haematology Oncology Outpatients
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
This post is only open for applications for individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Care System.
Are you ambitious, motivated, and passionate about nursing?
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is seeking qualified, NMC Registered Nurses to join our fantastic nursing team. We are proud to be developing a team of like-minded individuals who can live and breathe our core values and help us provide unprecedented levels of care that every patient deserves.
In return for your passion, dedication, and hard work, we promise you:
* Bespoke induction and training programme, based on your needs and aspirations.
* Access to our free Beach Hut, on-site gym, swimming pool, and nursery.
* Superb NHS benefits, including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice for electrical goods, annual leave, and pension.
If you are ready to feel valued and where your work has real meaning, get in contact with us today!
Main Duties of the Job
Clinical/Professional
* 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 haematology oncology patients.
* Recognise and respond to a change in patient status, undertaking first line interventions within the scope of practice and referring on to the appropriate clinician as required.
* Actively promote safe and effective working practices to prevent harm to the patients within your care and maintain high-quality standards.
* Communicate and work with the multidisciplinary team to improve quality of care and informed clinical decisions. Promote innovation and share any new ideas to improve patient care.
* Communicate complex/sensitive information with empathy and respect, ensuring understanding.
About Us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Job Responsibilities
* 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 coordinate 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 the scope of practice and referring 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.
* Communicate and work 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 healthcare professionals with ongoing responsibility for patient care, communicating changes as they occur.
* Ensure 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 patient's experience.
* Engage and interact with carers and family, encouraging them to be actively involved in patients' care planning 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 maintaining these.
* Promote health education within the clinical area and advise patients, family, and others on health promotion issues, making every contact count. Promote the health and wellbeing of staff, patients, and their carers.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current RN, registration with NMC and any other relevant post-registration qualifications.
* 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.
* Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system.
* Driving licence.
* Working at peripheral sites.
Experience
* Clinically competent at Band 5.
* 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 the development of others.
* Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues.
* Health promotion.
* Ability to adapt to change within working situation.
* Intravenous Therapy Skills.
* Knowledge of central venous access devices.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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