Job summary
- Main area
- Neonatal
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 151-CG-249
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £29,828 - £36,311 per annum (pro rata) inc. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Neonatal Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
Are you a newly qualified nurse or someone looking for a new challenge? This is an exciting opportunity for nurses who are passionate and enthusiastic about Neonatal care to join our team.
New staff members are well supported through a comprehensive induction programme, including preceptorship for newly qualified nurses or nurses who are new to specialty. There are plenty of opportunities for educational support and career development. We are also passionate about ensuring the health and wellbeing of all our staff.
The Neonatal Unit at Wexham Park Hospital is a Level 2 Neonatal Unit made up of 2 Intensive Care, 3 High Dependency and 12 Special Care cots. The unit cares for babies over 26+6 weeks gestation and stabilises any baby under that gestation, to be transferred to a tertiary hospital/ NICU.
Our team aspires to provide high quality and evidence based; clinical, developmental and family integrated care in order to ensure the best outcomes for our babies and their families.
Main duties of the job
-To provide the highest quality care for babies and their families.
-To assist the senior nursing staff in the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of paediatric care for an allocated group of patients from admission through to discharge or transfer.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse /Midwife/Child Branch/RSCN
- Evidence of continuing education & professional development
Desirable criteria
- Degree in Nursing or other relevant field or can demonstrate experience of working to this level
- Mentorship qualification
- Specialty qualification - Intensive Care of the Newborn or equivalent
- Child Protection Training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to prioritise and work in an organised way with excellent time management skills
- Proven oral and written communication skills
Desirable criteria
- IT Literate
Essential
Essential criteria
- UK Resident with NMC Registration (Newly Qualified Nurses awaiting PIN acceptable)
Desirable criteria
- UK Resident with NMC Registration (Newly Qualified Nurses awaiting PIN acceptable)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Neonatal nursing experience
Desirable criteria
- mentorship
- QIS qualification
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
- Kuljit Sangha
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 615 4533
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