An exciting opportunity to join Chesterfield Royal Hospital Maternity Services as a Lead Nurse for Transitional Care.
We are currently implementing Transitional care on our postnatal ward. The lead role will facilitate the implementation / management and evaluation of the Transitional Care service, working alongside the Maternity and Neonatal teams.
The unit will care for infants who meet the criteria for Neonatal Transitional Care as described in CNST Safety Action 3. The beds are currently part of the bed base on the maternity ward at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. Our team provides high quality care, working collaboratively to keep mothers and babies together, avoiding separation and admission to the neonatal care unit.
Our maternity inpatient ward offers a calm and welcoming environment for women and their families, whilst Chesterfield Birth Centre provides co-located midwife and consultant led labour ward facilities, including 4 birthing pools
We are a fully accredited Baby Friendly unit.
Our Community Midwifery service centre's around 4 local bases /GP surgeries which provide care for around 2500 women per year.
The overriding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.
To work as the Lead Nurse, to lead and work alongside the Ward Leader in providing high standards of holistic transitional care, ensuring that it is evidence based and compliant with best practice recommendations for Transitional Care services (TC).
Our vision: Exceptional patient care provided by exceptional people.
Our mission: To bring our people communities and partners together, providing patient care we are proud of. We all play a part in achieving this, by living up to the values we promise to our patients and each other. As members of staff we will always be guided by our Proud to CARE values:
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and good financial control, currently operating with a positive financial surplus and was recently rated “Good” by the CQC .
We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient care
Please refer to the relevant job description and person specification for the full qualifications, skills and experience required for this post.
This advert closes on Friday 4 Apr 2025
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