Job summary
- Main area
- Neonatal
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 370-WCH7NEO-V1264
- Employer
- Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Warrington Hospital
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/03/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/03/2025
Employer heading
Neonatal team leader
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for experienced neonatal nurses to join our team band 7 team as a clinical team leader with an interest in risk.
Therefore we are looking to recruit a highly skilled and motivated Neonatal nurses, who has recent hospital experience in nursing infants who have special care, high dependency and intensive care needs. If you are confident in the assessment, treatment and management of babies, providing family integrated care and can support a nursing team through effective leadership and management skills then we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
Our Neonatal service at WHH is ran by a dynamic, talented team of professionals nurses who deliver high quality, compassionate care to the local community and beyond.
You will join an established senior nursing team who will support you to develop professionally. You will work collaboratively with them to manage the neonatal service on a day to day basis. This role requires you to utilise your expertise and critical thinking skills to ensure performance and standards are monitored and continuously maintained.
Operational management duties include maintaining a safe, clean environment, monitoring and improving unit performance, supporting staff wellbeing through training and providing pastoral care. The post holder is professionally accountable for the standards of clinical care delivered within their unit, they will undertake and supervise clinical practice, audit, research and participate in teaching.
Working for our organisation
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.
Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.
Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.
A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.
Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We have two positions available 34.5 hours and 30 hours per week.
Role Summary
- To function as a senior practitioner on the Neonatal unit using expert knowledge and skills to achieve the optimum outcome for the neonate and family in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team.
- To be responsible for co-ordinating, supervising and supporting neonatal staff in the clinical areas in the delivery of individualised care to the neonate in partnership with the family.
- To be responsible for supervising and mentoring members of the team.
- To be responsible for co-ordinating and managing the shift.
- To be responsible for providing professional leadership within the team.
- To be designated to take charge of the ward/department regularly , in the absence of the Neonatal unit manager.
- To be responsible for supervising and managing a named group of staff within the establishment.
- To be responsible for an area of quality improvement.
- Promote a culture where clinical governance and patient safety are integrated into the care and wellbeing of all patients, staff and families, promoting, openness and accountability.
- Support staff and guide them in management of incidents and complaints, promoting reflection on practice and disseminating learning.
- Ensure the appropriate level of investigation is undertaken in response to incidents, reflecting the severity of incidents.
Please see attached job description and person specification.
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Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant neonatal experience at Band 6 level
- Competent to deliver care in all areas.
- Evidence of Leadership experience within a Neonatal unit
- Evidence of service development experience
- Knowledge of audit and service improvement
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of change management
- Evidence of project management/ quality improvement
- Staff management experience
- Experience of conflict resolution
- Risk management experience
- Complaints management and report writing
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN, RSCN or RN (Adult or Child) Clinical Professional Qualification
- Degree level or equivalent
- Post-registration qualification in specialist area (ENB 405 or equivalent)
- Teaching and assessing or mentorship qualification.
- NLS certificate
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of ongoing academic studies
- Leadership qualification
- ENNP
Skills, knowledge and competencies
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Skilled in writing high quality reports
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to plan & prioritise the workload of the clinical team.
- Demonstrates commitment to team working and the development of others.
- Understanding of information governance and confidentiality
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Good understanding of clinical audit
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in a governance role
Physical, mental and emotional effort
Essential criteria
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to delegate, Good communicator, Well organised
- Willing to be flexible in service delivery.
- Be able to manage own workload.
- Excellent decision making skills and negotiation skills.
- Enthusiastic, motivated, and committed to neonatal nursing
- Calm, approachable, reliable, flexible and responsive to change
- Able to work individually as well as a team.
- Able have difficult conversations with staff and families.
Specific role requirements
Essential criteria
- Awareness of national and local key drivers
- Knowledge of rick management priniciples
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Erica Wiles
- Job title
- Neonatal Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925662278
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