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.

Are you looking for a new challenge? An opportunity has become available for a highly motivated Band 5 Nurse to join the Renal team on ward G7 based at Queen Alexandra Hospital. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical skills in a supportive and welcoming team.

The Wessex Kidney Centre (WKC) at Queen Alexandra Hospital is a regional renal and transplant centre, looking after more than 1,500 patients on renal replacement therapy (transplant, haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis) and performing around 100 kidney transplants a year.

We are a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, with expertise across a range of subspecialties.

Our renal service consists of three main areas – nephrology (the study of the kidneys), transplantation, and dialysis, providing a service across a number of sites

About the role

As a new employee emphasis is placed on your professional development. We offer a Band 5 Renal Rotation and development programme and for those that wish to undertake a specialist renal qualification post graduate programme we run this in collaboration with Southampton University at both Level 6 & 7.

This post offers you the unique opportunity to develop skills in an acute setting with the support from a well-established Practice Education team to achieve your clinical competencies including specialist renal nursing skills in acute haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, plasma exchange, hemofiltration and renal transplantation. We look after a varied patient cohort, which includes general nephrology and renal surgery.

You should possess excellent communication skills and be committed to delivering safe and compassionate care. We welcome new ideas and strive to constantly improve our delivery of care to patients.

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are seeking qualified, NMC Registered Nurses, to join our fantastic nursing team. We are proud to be developing a team of like-minded individuals, those that can live and breathe our core values, and help us to provide unprecedented levels of care that we know each and every patient deserves.

We know the secret to our success is through investment in our staff, so in return for your passion, dedication, and hard work we promise you:

• Your choice of placement, based on your skills and experience and current vacancies
• 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 to name but a few

If you are ready to feel valued, and where your work has real meaning, get in contact with us today!

Key Responsibilities:

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 a specified group of patients
• Recognise and respond to a change in patient status undertaking first line interventions within scope of practice and refer 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
• Communicating and working 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

Essential

• Current RN +/-, registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
• BSc Degree in relevant field
• Evidence of recent CPD

Desirable

• Post Reg. qualifications for specialty area (QIS)

Experience

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Experience in a critical/high care environment in an acute care setting

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system
• Clinically competent at Band 5
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Teaching and mentoring skills
• Team building skills
• Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others
• Organisational skills and able to work as part of a team
• Able to support development of others
• Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
• Health promotion
• Advocacy skills
• Strong customer service skills
• Flexibility

Desirable

• Ability to adapt to change within working situation
• Intravenous Therapy Skills
• Mentors Course

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.