Job summary
- Main area
- Neonatal
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 381-WC-6765315
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Family Integrated Care Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
The post holder will implement Family Integrated Care as the philosophy of neonatal care within our trust. The post-holder will work directly with families, supporting them to become more involved in the care of their baby whilst collaboratively working with the ODN Lead Care Coordinator, the Neonatal Community Outreach team, neonatal nursing, AHP and medical teams to achieve this aim.
The post-holder will lead on patient engagement and experience initiatives and quality improvement projects including infant feeding, parent-led ward rounds and discharge planning whilst leading on the development and delivery of educational programmes for parents and staff. These actions will not only improve the care provided to babies and their families but prepare the unit for Bliss and Neonatal Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation. The role will require significant knowledge and experience of family integrated care, developmental care and breastfeeding.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will act as a strong advocate embedding the ethos of ‘parents as partners in care’ – empowering staff to educate and support parents to be fully involved in provision of care and decision-making. Encouraging parent presence and participation in development ward rounds, hand overs and other discussions around planning their baby’s care. This will require role modelling, staff, and parent education, providing parental information and awareness of FiCare
Identify the need for and lead on the development of appropriate local guidelines, particularly focusing on standardising developmental and family integrated care whilst collaboratively working with the MDT to enhance and maximise family centred and integrated care
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this role, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (RN) or Child Branch (RNC) or Registered Midwife (RM)
- Specialist Neonatal Intensive Care qualification
- Mentor and assessor qualification/alternative clinical teaching course.
- Leadership course/qualifications or experience
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/ diploma level training plus further study or working towards
- Demonstrable CPD
- Current Neonatal Life Support Course
Desirable criteria
- Relevant specialist training e.g. FINE, Baby Friendly Train the Traine
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering education to neonatal families
- Extensive experience of developmentally appropriate care
- Evidence of professional leadership/management experience
- Extensive experience of developmentally appropriate care
- Experience of delivering education to neonatal families
Desirable criteria
- Delivering training and education to MDT/families
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carmen Nuttall
- Job title
- Neonatal Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812708660
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