Junior Sister/Charge Nurse

Job overview

Junior Charge Nurse

Hours:  37.5 hrs per week (minimum 24 hours per week)

Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, based at our Women’s hospital, is a leading Perinatal Centre and one of the largest Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the UK. We are the designated Neonatal Surgical Centre for West Midlands Operational Delivery Network and accept in-utero and post-natal transfers from throughout the West Midlands. We deliver outstanding care to some of the west midlands sickest babies from 22 weeks gestation. As well as caring for new born babies with surgical conditions we also care for sick and premature new born babies with medical conditions and babies born with congenital abnormalities such as diaphragmatic hernia and cardiac lesions.  We are host to the West Midlands Human Milk Bank and we serve a maternity department delivering 8,500 babies per annum.

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced clinical nurse to join for our Neonatal Service on NICU at the Birmingham Women’s hospital, part of the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital foundation trust. You must have current experience working in a neonatal intensive care environment, but also be able to ensure care delivery to the whole spectrum of the HRG level 5-1 neonatal service specification, including safe discharge to our developing community service.  Outstanding communication skill is required for this post with current experience supporting the operational workforce.

Main duties of the job

Outstanding communication skill is required for this post with current experience supporting the operational workforce.  There is close working with our partners across the Birmingham Local Maternity Service and this will be maintained and developed.

We have excellent professional development opportunities and offer a family friendly environment for our local community and region.   The post holder will need to be adaptable, flexible, resilient, able to work the full range of clinical shifts over the 24 hour period.

Our multidisciplinary team works closely with colleagues in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Outreach Team (NCOT), Maternity Services and the Regional Fetal Medicine Centre as part of the Network Perinatal  Centre.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

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