Neonatal Staff Nurse - Special Care Baby Unit

Job overview

At WVT our we are designated Level 1+ Special Care Baby Unit providing high quality, evidence based care for premature and sick infants born 30 weeks gestation and above.

The unit has 12 cots in total, 1 x Intensive Care cot for stabilisation and transfer to Level 3 Unit, 2 High Dependency cots, 6 special care cots and 3 transitional care beds for mother and baby located on the special care baby unit.   Our vision is to work in partnership with the families to promote family integrated care delivering high quality care to the babies and their families.

We are working toward implementing UNICEF BFI neonatal standards and have achieved stage 1, working toward stage 2.   We are a Bronze accredited unit for the BLISS Baby Charter and are in the process of working toward Silver.

We are looking to recruit a Neonatal Nurse who has completed a Neonatal Speciality Module (QIS) or willing to work towards, with recent experience of working as a registered nurse in an NNU, LNU or SCBU.

If you are a  Registered Nurse or Midwife  with previous neonatal experience, then this could be the opportunity you have been looking for.  We are dedicated to developing all of our staff and will provide you with an opportunity to develop within a supported environment

***neonatal experience is required for this post***

Main duties of the job

As a band 5 staff nurse you will be responsible for the care of pre-term and term babies and their families across the neonatal service including families in our transitional care beds. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver best quality care, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual programmes of care.  You will also work closely with our neonatal outreach team to establish and facilitate early discharge planning to the community.

You will have a desire and a commitment to deliver excellent family centred care in partnership with the families, and as a member of our small friendly professional team you will be flexible, reliable and motivated to succeed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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