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.

Staff Nurse

Band 5

Permanent post

Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)

Are you interested in emergency medicine including minor injury/illness?

Want to work with a team who continually strive to be the best, putting patients at the heart of everything we do?

The Emergency SDEC team are looking for experienced registered nurses to join our team. 

We are looking for positive, resilient, compassionate and enthusiastic nurses who have a thirst for learning and developing their skills and knowledge within minor skills. We will support you to develop skills such as triage, suturing and plastering.

You will work closely with Emergency Nurse Practitioners to ensure that patients pathway through both the Emergency Care Centre and Urgent Treatment Centre Gosport is safe, efficient and within a timely manner.

You must have the ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines, have good written and verbal communication skills, and enjoy working in constantly and rapidly changing environments. It is essential that you are able to work across both units.

You will be required to:

• Ensuring high quality nursing care is coordinated and delivered using a family focused model of practice.
• Work as part of a cohesive multidisciplinary team ensuring patient care is delivered smoothly and efficiently.
• The expectations within this job description will be achieved through hands-on clinical practice, education and training and research.

For a full list of roles and responsibilities, please see the attached job description. 

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

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

• Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Clinically competent at Band 5 with minimum of 6 months experience.
• 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

Desirable

• Ability to adapt to change within working situation
• Intravenous Therapy Skills
• Mentors Course     
• Competent in streaming, plastering and suturing.                  

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.

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.