Bank Staff Nurse

Are you an experienced registered staff nurse with a minimum of a years experience in the UK 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.

Please kindly do not re-apply if you have applied within the last 6 months.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• 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

• 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

Desirable

• Experience of staff supervision
• Awareness of local and national agenda within the speciality

Skills and Ability

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Customer service experience i.e. dealing within complaints

About the employer

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: