Job overview

Are you an experienced registered staff nurse 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.

Working for our organisation

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 :

• Flexibility to choose shifts to create a better work / life balance Use of an app to self-book shifts at your leisure
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Paid trust induction and mandatory training including e-learning Experience a 'variety of departments
• Unsocial hours enhancements Weekly or monthly pay
• Support with revalidation
• Dedicated Clinical Lead to Support Bank Nurses

If you are a committed, friendly, and reliable nurse who is passionate about making a difference and enjoys working in a busy and challenging environment we would love to hear from you

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 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 criteria

• 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 criteria

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

Skills and Ability

Essential criteria

• 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
• Have a flexible approach
• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
• Ability to work with the multi / interdisciplinary team and set goals

Desirable criteria

• Customer service experience i.e. dealing within complaints

Last updated : 2024-04-27