Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Jessop Wing
Town Sheffield
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period Yearly
Closing 16/03/2025 23:59
Interview date 25/03/2025
Neonatal Community Outreach Sister/Charge Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages, and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced neonatal nurse with QIS to join the Continuing Care Team at Jessop Wing Neonatal Unit, providing continuing care for babies and their families into the community in the home setting.
The post is for 30 hours a week and will be based in the Neonatal Clinic and the families' home setting. You will help coordinate and continue the ongoing care of babies who have been cared for within the Neonatal Service. The candidate must be a car driver.
Main duties of the job
To provide safe and effective care to babies born before 34 weeks gestation, babies who have spent more than 21 days in hospital on the Neonatal Unit, babies who are less than 2 kg at discharge, and babies who have gone home requiring nasogastric tube feeding.
The post holder will be part of a dedicated, professional team, providing safe and effective care to babies and their families within their home in the community and in the Neonatal Follow Up Clinic.
The postholder will provide care to babies who have a variety of specialist needs, from complications caused by prematurity, babies with complex care needs, and babies with congenital abnormalities.
The nurse will support families with babies requiring help to establish responsive feeding or with specialist feeding requirements if not able to fully orally feed.
The nurse will be expected to help care for babies requiring home oxygen and will coordinate this care with the specialist respiratory nurses from Sheffield Children’s Hospital.
The post holder will carry out blood sampling in the patient’s home and clinic.
The post holder will have use of their own car and ensure insurance covers business use and have no more than 3 penalty points (mileage is paid via E-expenses when registered and paid and claimed monthly).
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff, including commitments to professional development and many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* Registered nurse (valid with NMC)
* Advanced Diploma Nursing Studies or equivalent
* Qualified in Neonatal Speciality (QIS)
* Completed the national PEAP programme for practice supervisors or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998 or equivalent.
* RSCN/ child branch
* R23 or equivalent (enhancing neonatal practice) held or working towards first level degree, enhanced skills
* Leadership course or similar
* Professional Nurse advocate course, willingness to complete
Experience
* Evidence of management and leadership qualities
* Significant experience in neonatal Intensive care at staff nurse or sister/charge nurse level post neonatal qualification
Further Training
* Current Newborn Life Support
* Experience of safeguarding Neonatal families and babies.
* Paediatric Life support Community Course
* Professional Nurse Advocate
* Effective communicator, leadership skills, ability to participate in education of others, assertiveness, role model
* Able to work as a lone worker in the community – be aware of escalation process for concerns
Other Factors
* Current UK driving licence with no more than 3 points
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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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