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Are you a passionate student nurse within 18 months of qualifying? Do you desire an exciting newly qualified nurse opportunity? Would you like to join a rapidly advancing trust and begin your successful clinical career?
Here at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS), we welcome your application and, through our offer of fantastic training and development, believe we can give you the best chances to achieve your professional and personal ambitions.
UHS is a major trauma centre situated on the south coast of England, where award-winning care, UK firsts, and ground-breaking clinical trials are all in a day’s work. Our teams provide a wide and diverse range of services to over 1.9 million people living in Southampton and beyond. Unlike many other trusts in the country, we look after patients from the start of life to the end. This means that you have huge variety in the people you will work with, the patients you will see and the career pathways on offer to you.
At UHS, we’re guided by our values of putting patients first, always improving and working together. So, if you’re dedicated to patient care, inspired to make progressive improvements, and a great collaborator; we’d love you to join us.
Working for our Organisation
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to. UHS is rated ‘Good’ by the CQC and in the latest national NHS Staff Survey, we were in the top 10 acute trusts for staff engagement and for staff recommending the hospital as a place to work or receive care.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 20% lower than London and 14 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.
Support For You
To give you the strongest start in your nursing career, we offer a comprehensive two-week induction and a well-supported preceptorship programme. There are plenty of opportunities to grow and take the lead as you progress. We’re committed to support all our staff in achieving their personal and professional ambitions.
We think working here is pretty great, but you don’t have to take our word for it. Here’s what one of our newly qualified nurses said about working at UHS:
“I feel incredibly proud to be part of such a forward-thinking, innovative trust, and I hope to see many more people joining to share the same positive experience that I’ve had!” - Ellie Fowler, newly qualified nurse, child health.
Additional Information
Please provide both an academic and clinical reference within your application.
If you’re interested in applying for this role, we’d encourage you to get in touch using the contact information at the bottom of this advert with any questions or if you would like to arrange an informal visit. Alternatively, if you’re ready to apply, please follow the link below to complete an application.
Please note that this advert is specifically for adult newly qualified nurses. If you have completed a dual field programme (child/adult or mental health/adult), please specify in your application the areas you’re interested in joining to enable you to maintain both parts of your registration.
Please note that this advert is specifically for adult newly qualified nurses. Paediatric nurses will need to apply through the specific advert.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
- Qualified nurse NMC registered or registration pending.
- Evidence of on-going personal development
Skills
Essential Criteria
- Good communication skills
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Able to use initiative
- Analytical decision-making skills
- Team player.
- Awareness of evidence based practice.
Values
Essential Criteria
- Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the Trust Values Patients First
- Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the Trust Values Always Improving
- Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the Trust Values Working Together
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 our travel promise
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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Applicant Requirements
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.
