Staff Nurse

Job summary

Kingfisher ward is a 24 Bedded rehabilitation unit. We are looking to expand the existing team, and are keen to encourage existing Band 5 Nurses to apply from either acute or non-acute settings, or newly qualified nurses.

Clinical Matron Lucy Hatchard says 'Join Kingfisher and find your feet as a professional within an environment that is supportive and encouraging through my support as clinical matron'

Main duties of the job

• High standards of Professional Practice to ensure quality and safety of patient care, experience and the patient journey
• Developing own clinical practice, knowledge, skills and experience.
• Acting as a good role model
• Supporting the team in ensuring that clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care and that all compliance requirements such as CQC and contractual requirements are achieved.
• To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients using investigative and analytical skills where factors may be conflicting, requiring analysis and interpretation skills and the comparison of a range of options to achieve effective treatment or discharge planning check
• To develop clinically reasoned treatment, action and discharge plans and to undertake and evaluate treatment

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.