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. They will ensure that they support 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.
They will 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.
They will also 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 ofKindness, Wellness,Fairness, guides appropriate behaviours of all colleagues and enable us all to be accountable for our actions and will be ingrained within our revised appraisal and recruitment processes.
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.
Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as:
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.
Support the role of key worker for a group of babies and their families
Take responsibility with the Senior Sister for the efficient and effective organisation of the unit team and delivery of care
Provide support to the management and leadership of the daily clinical team, the allocated team and work within the Multi-disciplinary Team to ensure performance is maintained and improved
Maintain a friendly, professional, open environment where the contribution of all team members are valued and facilitate a climate in which staff would wish to work.
Support service to ensure effective leadership and management of resources, including budgetary responsibilities
This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Mar 2025