Senior Nursery Nurse for Neonatal Outreach

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Senior Nursery Nurse to work within the Neonatal Community Outreach Service, hosted by UHCW. The post holder will assist neonatal staff across the Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) at 3 hospital sites (University Hospitals Coventry (UHCW), George Eliot Hospital (GEH), and South Warwick Hospital (SWFT)) with early and appropriate discharge planning in accordance with the criteria for neonatal outreach care.

The service provides continuing community care for babies and their families in the home setting. The Neonatal Community Outreach Service provides ongoing care and support for babies discharged home requiring nasogastric tube feeding, oxygen and home phototherapy.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Nursery Nurse to join our forward thinking family focused neonatal team. The successful candidate will demonstrate the drive and motivation to support the implementation of such an exciting service across the sites. To be successful in this role you will need to have had clinical experience of working in neonatal care, and to have successfully completed the Fundamentals of Neonatal Care course.

Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received.

The post holder will be an excellent team worker and will be responsible for ensuring the highest standard of clinical care and evidence based practice for a defined group of infants within the scope of neonatal outreach.

Hours of work will be a mix of 08.00-16.00 and 10.00-18.00, Monday to Sunday.

If you have any questions or queries about the post please don't hesitate to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you!

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence®designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award.Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

To Support the delivery of the Neonatal Community Outreach Service and
ensure a high quality, efficient and effective service, in support of an integrated LMNS approach.

To work within the hub and spoke model for the outreach team.

To provide feeding advice and support for families cared for in the community.

To support a seamless timely discharge from hospital to the home environment.

Collect data as required to support the outreach model
Support patient pathways and facilitate early discharge of patients.

Demonstrate technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management e.g. patient observations, equipment management and administration of agreed invasive tests/procedures, and defined expanded clinical roles.

Responsible for own actions, working within agreed guidelines and polices, including all aspects of child protection; ensuring the safety of the baby at all times, recognising the need to refer to a trained member of staff as appropriate.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.