The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT
The post holder will ensure the provision of a high standard of family-centred evidence-based nursing and medical care using advanced clinical skills from pre-admission to discharge of babies on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the Transitional Care Unit (TC), using patient assessment skills and making and delivering plans for care and treatment on a daily basis.
Ensure support of the midwifery team to deliver care to babies across the inpatient maternity services where assessment and care planning may be required. This post sits within the junior doctor tier of the medical roster.
Ensure the NICU Multi-disciplinary Team are involved in the systems that develop local and network policies, guidelines, action plans and benchmarks; developing the Neonatal Service within the Neonatal Network and Women and Children's Division.
Ensure the Neonatal Network and Trust nursing strategy are implemented within the Neonatal Unit, providing evidence of integration into working practice with audit and advising the Divisional Leadership Team of service developments that can contribute towards the business plan. Our Trust Values of Kindness, Wellness, Fairness, guide appropriate behaviours of all colleagues and enable us all to be accountable for our actions.
Main duties of the job
Promote a high standard of advanced specialist nursing and medical care by initiating and co-ordinating the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of the holistic needs of babies, parents/carers and families through evidence based clinical practice following agreed policies, procedures and guidelines.
Respond to calls from maternity services on the request of a midwife to assess the condition of a baby and provide specialist advice.
Person Specification
Qualifications/training and professional development
* Registered Nurse in Child or Adult, RSCN or Registered Midwife
* Teaching and Assessing Qualification
* Child Protection Level 3
* MSc in Advanced Neonatal Practice
Experience
* Experience of supervising and assessing learners
Skills, abilities and competencies
* Ability to plan and prioritise care for neonatal patients
* Understanding of the NMC Code of Conduct
* Understanding of the safeguarding process
* Understanding of the importance of the clinical governance framework
* Advanced clinical skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£53,755 to £60,504 a year dependant on experience and qualification, per annum pro rata.
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