SoNAR Neonatal Transport Nurse

Job overview

Within the Southwest Neonatal network, there are approximately 1200 transfers each year of infants requiring specialist critical care, as well as for those infants being taken back nearer to their home hospitals. These transfers are generally carried out in road ambulances, though an increasing number are undertaken using the air ambulance. As part of the SoNAR Neonatal Transport Service,  you will work closely with an enthusiastic and committed team of Nurses, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners, Junior Doctors, Advanced Paramedics and Consultants.

Transport Nurses use their neonatal nursing expertise, alongside their trouble-shooting, communication, and planning and team working skills, playing a key role in the provision of a safe and high quality transport service. You will have the opportunity to develop these skills in a nurturing environment with support and guidance from the transport team. You will develop expertise in transport equipment, transport logistics, and responding to clinical challenges in the transport environment which will become central to the delivery of high quality neonatal transfers in our region.

SoNAR is a single transport service with teams operating out of a northern and southern hub. This role is for a transport nurse based in the northern hub, in a new premises in Aztec West, Bristol.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 6 neonatal transport nurse , you will have a key role in the safe transportation of critically ill infants and their families. Following completion of comprehensive induction training you will undertake a range of transfers either independently, or as part of a medical/nursing team depending on the requirements of the infant. These transfers may be undertaken as aeromedical or road transfers. The role requires that you work effectively as part of a small team both in the referring and receiving hospitals, when en-route between hospitals, and those occasions when you are working independently on a nurse led transfer. There will be times when you are working under extreme clinical and logistical pressures, where you will need to be able to operate effectively, and support the staff around you in stressful situations.  Some transfers will be undertaken independently. These nurse-led transfers will include, where appropriately triaged in discussion with the Transport ANNP/Fellow/Consultant, the transfer of stable infants requiring high-dependency care.  Your expertise in transport equipment, transport logistics, and responding to clinical challenges in the transport environment will become central to the delivery of high quality neonatal transfers in our region.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.