Staff Nurse - Child Health

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for a detailed job description of the role.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting time to join the team at Southampton’s Children’s Hospital. We are offering Rotation posts across our Children's Hospital for experienced paediatric staff Nurses to join our team.

Are you an experienced paediatric staff nurse ready for a new challenge? Would you like to work for an innovative forward-thinking hospital? Every patient is special to us, which means every nurse who cares for them must be too.

Southampton’s Children’s Hospital is a 115 bedded hospital catering for both local and regional children from the Wessex Region including the Channel Islands.

Our Children’s Hospital prides itself on providing a variety of specialist tertiary services and therefore rotations can include any of the following areas within critical care for children incorporating Paediatric ICU, Neonatal Intensive Care and Paediatric HDU, Oncology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Orthopaedics and Major Trauma, Urology, Nephrology, ENT Surgery, Outpatients and Children's Day Unit JADW. The Children’s Hospital has a dedicated Children’s Emergency Department and is a Paediatric Major Trauma Centre.

We are looking for highly motivated colleagues who have excellent care values and a strong sense of team spirit. We are a friendly, welcoming, and supportive team and there are opportunities to work across departments gaining clinical leadership and management skills along the way.

Working for our organisation

University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.

Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.

At UHS we’re committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.

At UHS, we proudly champion individuality, recognizing that outstanding care is only possible with a diverse, inclusive team. We’re committed to creating an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels valued, safe, and empowered to make a meaningful impact in our communities. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to join us in building a healthcare community where everyone can belong, thrive, and contribute.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Southampton Children’s Hospital is a tertiary paediatric Hospital which offers the following services:

• Dedicated children's emergency and short stay department
• Paediatric Intensive care and Retrieval service
• Paediatric Outreach service
• Tertiary Oncology, Cardiology, Neurological, Surgical, Orthopaedic
• Medical and Endocrine centre
• Haemodialysis Unit
• CAHMS team / Learning Disability Nurse
• Dedicated Play Team
• Tertiary medical, cardiac, and surgical neonatal unit
• Paediatric Medical Unit (PMU)
• Paediatric High Dependency Unit (HDU)
• G2 Paediatric Neurology
• G3 Orthopaedics
• G4 SUN (Surgery, Urology, Nephrology)
• Piam Brown (Oncology)
• John Atwell Day Ward (JADW)
• E1 Ocean Ward (Surgical & Cardiology)
• PICU
• Children's Out Patients
• Bursledon House

Rotation examples can include PICU E1 Cardiac Ward, PICU PHDU, ED Paediatric Admissions Unit PMU, G3, G4 Surgical Wards, all combinations will be considered. Rotations will consist of 9-month placements in 2-3 of your chosen areas.

Person specification

Qualifications, knowledge and experience

• Qualified Nurse (Degree/Diploma)
• Registered nurse on appropriate part of the register
• Knowledge of current issues within acute Health Service
• Understanding of personal accountability
• Knowledge of own role within the team
• Provide evidence of teaching and supporting learners in practice in the role of practice supervisor
• Able to use initiative
• Evidence of recent study
• Previous experience/qualification in relevant specialty
• Teaching experience

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

Getting to work should be as easy as possible and that’s why we have introduced the UHS travel promise – a commitment from the Trust that we will provide reasonable travel options for every member of staff. Every member of staff can apply for a permit to use our park & ride facility. Eligibility for on-site parking is dependent on the nature and requirement of the role. All staff can also access a range of discounted benefits relating to travel including reduced price bus tickets, purchase of salary sacrifice bikes and ultra-low emission cars.

Our commitment to equality

Equality remains at the centre of our policymaking, service delivery, and employment practice, giving all employees equal opportunity to develop, apply for promotions, and have working arrangements that enable them to achieve a manageable work-life balance.

UHS actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for managers and staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development, and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status and age.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.