Neonatal Community and Transitional Care Lead Nurse Trust wide

Job overview

This is an exciting post for a experienced neonatal nurse  to be the manager for a growing team of experienced nurses and health care assistants who work in the Transitional Care unit and care for babies in the community

The Neonatal Outreach and Transitional Care team will play an essential role in the patient’s journey and  supporting families.

The post holder will be a full time  band 7 supervisory manager covering two hospital sites.

The post holder will work in partnership with the Clinical Leads and the teams on the Neonatal  Ward/to ensure that high standards of nursing care are provided at all times.

Main duties of the job

As an experienced Neonatal  Nurse, the post holder will manage a team of Neonatal Nurses who care for neonates  on the Transitional Care Unit and in the Community who have been discharged from Transitional Care or the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ensuring effective communication is maintained at all times.

They will play a key role in the assessment of patient care needs and  commence treatment plans and be instrumental in navigating reviews of the patient, liaising with the Neonatal areas and ensuring care of babies and appropriate escalation of care when required.

The post holder will act as a role model, promoting quality evidence-based practice, developing the Nursing Team by providing education, best practice guidance and support and ensuring effective management of the patient.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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