Senior Staff Nurse - Inpatient Services

Job summary

The PCAT team is at the centre of making sure that the next stop for Portsmouth patients leaving hospital but who still require care, have the best Community option open to them.

We have a role for you that will see you at the heart of Acute and Community decision-making around individual patient journeys. It is a senior role that will require corresponding skills of in-depth, complex patient assessment and triage, as well as supervision of other colleagues.

As a qualified nurse based primarily at Queen Alexandra Hospital, you will use your expert, holistic appraisal skills to determine the best next steps for Portsmouth patients as they move out of an acute setting and into the Community.

Liaising with patients, their families, as well as Health and Social Care colleagues and peers, you will find your proven aptitude for listening and for communication, as well as for backing up your decisions with expert, professional analysis and skill, come to the fore.

This is a senior nursing role, which we are happy to offer out as an opportunity for existing senior nurses, but also as an acting-up, secondment opportunity to an appropriate, qualified candidate.

We invite you to apply to us for this next step in your nursing career, taking this opportunity to expand your knowledge and experience of working across a whole care system that has optimum patient placement and care as its core aim.

Main duties of the job

Applies diagnostic reasoning and professional judgement to nursing practice issues/decisions.

Manage care of patients/clients on a day-to-day basis and when required manage care of all patients/clients in the absence of senior colleagues.

Fosters inquiry and critical thinking amongst colleagues to advance nursing practice and patient/client care to ensure the provision of positive patient/client outcomes and person-centred care.

Identifies when a child may be at risk and knows how to refer to the local multi- agency safeguarding hub (MASH) when appropriate.

Identifies when a vulnerable adult may be at risk and knows how to refer to the local authority adult safeguarding service.

Provide opportunities for junior colleagues to assess their work and to provide them with clear, sensitive, and appropriate feedback that will help them improve and develop.

Maintains and develops own clinical expertise and knowledge in speciality evidence-based nursing practice and personal portfolio to demonstrate fitness to practice in line with expectations for revalidation.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.