Neonatal Community Outreach Sister/Charge Nurse
Band 6
Job Overview
We have a vacancy for a Band 6 experienced neonatal nurse to work within our Neonatal community outreach team. The outreach team offers a full range of specialist services to facilitate a timely, safe, and effective patient journey throughout the neonatal journey from hospital to home. The team ensures opportunities for care at home are maximised with a focus on reducing admissions and keeping families together.
As a Band 6 nurse, you will be expected to deputise for the manager as needed and to lead and guide the team to achieve excellent standards of care, an excellent experience for babies and their families, and to role model excellent professional standards.
Main Duties of the Job
Successful candidates will join our friendly, supportive teams and be part of a team reflective of the acuity of the patient group. Regular staff engagement, feedback sessions, and a supportive ethos are actively practiced. We are looking for a nurse who is enthusiastic and committed to providing high-quality evidence-based care. We work closely with the maternity ward, transitional care, and neonatal services within the trust and within the wider maternity and neonatal network.
All applicants should be flexible to provide a 7-day-a-week service, working a shift pattern across weekdays and weekends to meet the needs of the service. We have a Practice Education team, Quality and Experience Nurse team, and SIM team to support your transition, ongoing education, and support. We advocate staff support and wellbeing with Professional Advocate Nurses and a Clinical Psychologist.
Working for Our Organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands, providing primary, acute, and community services. We are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the healthcare problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients. We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards, including The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020. The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Practice within an ethical framework based upon respect for the well-being and safety of patients and clients. Be responsible and professionally accountable for the assessment of care needs; development of personalised plans of care, implementation, and evaluation of care without supervision. Lead a team and co-ordinate the clinical area in the absence of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, reinforcing the values and standards of compassion, dignity, and respect in care, leading the delivery of clinically excellent care.
Ensure the planning and delivery of care is aligned to professional values of care, compassion, and respect. Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence-based practice. Support the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in ensuring a culture of protecting patients from harm and deprivation of basic rights, ensuring a safe and effective service with continuous quality improvement.
Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients, and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies, and protocols including health and safety, healthcare-associated infection prevention, and clinical governance.
Ensure a high standard of care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health and Care Professions Council, national legislation, and local standards. Demonstrate safe and effective care including timely administration of medicines; effective observation of patients; and demonstrate effective communication with the multi-professional team regarding patient care.
Assess the risks involved in the care of patients and ensure utilisation of practices and protocols to minimise those risks, including the safe use of medical devices. Monitor the standards of care and, with the support of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, take appropriate actions when standards fall below expected levels. Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and, with the support of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, take effective action to minimise future risks.
Contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based protocols, standards, policies, and clinical guidelines. Critically appraise and synthesise the outcomes of relevant research, evaluations, and audits and apply information when seeking to improve practice. Enhance the patients' experience by ensuring an effective and efficient patient journey by planning and co-ordinating the episode of care, including the smooth transition to other settings, promoting safe and effective discharge, and optimising communication with inter-disciplinary and inter-agency teams as required.
Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of audit, patient feedback, and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team. In the absence of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, co-ordinate nursing/midwifery interventions, advise on clinical decisions, and monitor the quality of patient care provided through expert clinical knowledge relevant to own field of practice, underpinned by theory and experience. Act as the advocate for the patient, ensuring safe and harm-free care is always uppermost in every decision.
Within a multi-disciplinary team environment, support the development of a culture of person-centred care. Be highly visible within the ward/department, communicating regularly with patients, relatives, and/or carers to promote transparency of service for patients and staff; promote a caring environment where equality and diversity issues are respected and patients are enabled to be partners in their care.
Identify opportunities to develop care and services by supporting the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in ensuring that there are effective systems in place to ascertain patient and carer experience/feedback and ensure complaints are managed in line with organisational policy. Ensure that everyone within the sphere of care is treated with dignity and humanity, understanding individual needs, showing compassion and sensitivity, and providing care in a way that respects all people equally.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Foundation course
* NMC Registration Nurse (Registered Child Nurse optional), NMC Registration Midwife
Skills/Experience
* Experience at Band 5
* Driving license
Flexible Working - As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region, we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the onboarding process.
Qualifications - Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc), you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application, you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicants’ qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider. Furthermore, a sample of all applicants’ qualifications will be checked back to the educational institution or provider to interview letters to further deter fraud.
Sponsorship - Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. As of 1 January 2021, free movement ended and the UK introduced a points-based immigration system. Further information is available regarding two types of visa; Health Care Visa Health Care Visa and Skilled Worker Visa Skilled Worker Visa.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
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.
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