Neonatal Ward Clinical Sister

Job overview

A very exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced registered neonatal nurses to join our substantial and supportive team. Our Grimsby Neonatal Unit is creating a team of Band 7 Clinical Sister’s to provide expert leadership and coordination skills required to maintain our units.

Humber Health Partnership has well established neonatal units within the Yorkshire and Humber Neonatal Network. This opportunity relates to Neonatal Service of the neonatal unit in Grimsby which comprises of 3 Intensive Care, 1 High Dependency, 8 Special Care and 4 Transitional Care and provides a high quality service to the network and beyond.

The successful applicants will be expected to ideally work a good mix of day and night shifts.

Face-to-face interviews to be carried out.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for highly motivated and dynamic Neonatal Nurses who can provide clinical expertise in the delivery of specialist care to neonates and their families.

We aim for clinical excellence and are looking for  enthusiastic, highly motivated applicants with experience within neonatal speciality and must hold a mentorship qualification.

We would expect that any applicants would share our values of being honest, respectful and compassionate. The successful applicants will play a vital role within the team in both staff and service development. You will be expected to co-ordinate care on a daily basis and deputise for the senior sister in her absence. Participation in audits, benchmarking and undertaking some managerial responsibilities will also be a vital part to this role. You will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to provide a supportive culture for teamwork and learning.

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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