Job summary
- Main area
- Neonatal
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours)
- Job ref
- 164-6463775
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NUH
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Neonatal Transitional Care Project Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you passionate about improving neonatal care and driving positive change within healthcare services? Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a dedicated and dynamic individual to join our team as a Transitional Care Service Improvement Lead on a 12-month secondment. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in enhancing our transitional care services to meet the BAPM transitional care standards. You will have the chance to influence the future of neonatal care, working closely with a team committed to delivering exceptional outcomes for newborns and their families.
Our maternity and neonatal redesign project aims to create a seamless, integrated care pathway that supports babies and their families from hospital to home. We are focused on developing innovative models of care that improve health outcomes and patient experiences. By joining our team, you will contribute to shaping this transformative initiative, ensuring that our services meet the highest standards of care and support.
Main duties of the job
- Drive change and identify service improvement needs.
- Provide clinical care to babies on the transitional care ward when needed.
- Collaborate with the lead nurse, transitional care consultant, and maternity partners.
- Develop and implement action plans and a new model of care.
- Represent neonatal transitional care at meetings and prepare reports.
- Network with other transitional care units in the East Midlands Neonatal Operational Delivery Network.
- Ensure smooth transition from hospital to home for eligible babies.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the job description and personal specification.
Requirements:
- Sound clinical knowledge and experience in neonatal care.
- Strong collaborative and communication skills.
- Experience in service improvement and implementing changes.
- Permission from your line manager for release for the secondment.
Person specification
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s behavioural standards
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RNC or RNA or RM
- Neonatal QIS (qualified in speciality)
- Degree in nursing related studies
- Master’s degree or equivalent or willingness to work towards/equivalent experience.
- Leadership course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Current or recent experience of working in a neonatal or Transitional care unit
- Education and training experience
- Significant post registration experience at band 6 or above, in a neonatal and/or Transitional care setting
- Demonstrates professional autonomy and effective decision making skills when managing caseload
- Experience in supervision of registered, non-registered staff and students
- Ability to manage clinical area/ward efficiently and effectively
- Ability to convey sensitive info in an empathetic manner to patients, relatives and staff
- Experience in using Badgernet, DHR and NOTIS
- Experience of leading audit or research projects within the clinical area
- Leadership and management experience, including providing staff with feedback on their individual performance and/or conducting appraisals
- Experience of managing risk, handling clinical incidents and complaints
- Demonstrates awareness of research and evidence Based practice.
- Evidence of teaching and assessment skills, including the teaching of patients, families and colleagues
- Evidence of working with a multidisciplinary team in appropriate setting (ie hospital, community)
- Experience of developing standards, guidelines and policies
- Understanding of neonatal and maternity patient pathways and it’s complexities and how to support patients through this
Desirable criteria
- Experience of setting up and developing a new service
- Experience in forming policy at local and national level
- Experience of change management
Communication and Relationship skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communicator including report writing and presentation skills
- Demonstrate basic IT skills
- Can minimise interpersonal conflict and barriers to communication, demonstrating evidence of negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to work within a MDT; collaborating with, leading when required, negotiating with and influencing the work of others across a range of disciplines and on own initiative including the sharing of highly complex information and implementation of plans for Service development.
- Ability to deliver presentations and chair meetings
- Ability to support colleagues, patients and relatives/carers
- Experience of initiating and implementing change effectively, engaging stakeholders in the process.
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate confidence in assessing, planning, delivering, prioritising and evaluating patient care
- Able to respond to problem situations and ensure that effective interventions are put in place Ability to interpret and analyse highly complex clinical and non-clinical information
- Lead on the identifying, successful implementation and management of a nursing change process.
- Act autonomously in decision making within specialty and level of competence.
- Recognition of own level of competence and limitations. Able to identify own learning needs
- Evidence of clinical and non-clinical data collection, evaluation, analysis, interpretation and application to clinical practice
- Able to critically analyse and evaluate research findings and to apply these to clinical practice
- Demonstrate confidence in assessing, planning, delivering, prioritising and evaluating patient care
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of national policy and current issues affecting specialty and its implications for practice
Desirable criteria
- Development and monitoring quality standards
- Evidence of participation in audit and research
- Experience in writing reports
Planning and organisation skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload, and that of others. Recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations within an unpredictable working environment.
- Able to lead the development, implementation and monitoring of local protocols and objectives and action plans to lead and introduce change
- Demonstrate an ability to supervise and support others in the prioritisation of their patient care
- Ability to lead and introduce change
- Awareness of budget constraints and ordering specialist supplies
- Knowledge and understanding of national policy and current issues relating to neonatal family care and bereavement
Physical skills
Essential criteria
- Physically able to perform the full range of nursing duties.
- Demonstrate dexterity and accuracy in undertaking clinical skills, use of equipment and documentation
- Competent and capable of using medical equipment
- Able to undertake manual handling manoeuvres
- Ability to work without supervision within scope of practice and manage own workload; effective time management.
- Ability to work within a variety of different clinical settings
Other requirements specific to the role (e.g. be able to work shifts/on call)
Essential criteria
- Must be able to work hours to suit service need
- Enhanced CRB clearance
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
- Lucy Panesar
- Job title
- Neonatal Home Care Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812275327
- Additional information
Joanna Hobbs
Matron Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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