Band 6 Neonatal Special Care Coordinator Sister/Charge Nurse

UHB Neonatal Service: Where a passion and career come together!

Our established team are looking for Neonatal Nurses who have a Critical Care qualification to take on the role of Special Care Coordinator.

At UHB we provide Neonatal care to over 10,000 babies across the region. Heartlands, Level 3 unit has 12 Critical Care & 20 Special Care cots, a Transitional Care unit and Neonatal Community Outreach Team. Good Hope, Level 1 Special Care Baby Unit has 12 Special Care cots with the capacity to stabilise sick and preterm infants in preparation for transfer.

As a band 6 coordinator your focus will be on quality, ensuring babies and families receive a high standard of care. You will support your team members nurturing them to develop knowledge and skills to function confidently within their role. You need to be motivated and enthusiastic about care delivery and drive forward positive change.

You should be supportive, calm and possess exceptional communication skills. You must be a positive role model and lead by example ensuring adherence to trust and local policies. You must be able to coordinate and organise care provisions and lead the diverse multi-professional team on shift.

The post holder would not be allocated patients, but will be required to support clinical care when needed. You would be expected to maintain your knowledge and skills through exposure to critical care.

The post is based at Heartlands hospital. Shift patterns are 7.30-20.00.

Main duties of the job

1. Coordinate care, capacity & flow across Special Care & Transitional Care collaborating with the nurse in charge of the Neonatal unit.
2. Ensure high quality care is delivered in line with policies & procedures. Maintain safe practice to protect vulnerable babies and families, adhering to Infection Control, Medicines Management and Infant Feeding standards.
3. Demonstrate positive role modelling, provide support, teaching and provision of pastoral care to enable staff to develop and perform within their scope of practice. Deliver constructive feedback and work with Educators to promote the development of knowledge, skills and confidence.
4. Communicate effectively with all teams and multi-disciplinary members. Attend huddles and team meetings to understand patient case load, clinical issues and convey messages to the team.
5. Utilise critical thinking skills to solve problems and escalate concerns appropriately in a timely manner to managers and senior leaders using the appropriate channels.
6. Provide supervision during clinical ward round to ensure key information is transferred and required care is planned. Ensure discharge planning and safeguarding concerns are managed appropriately and in the best interests of the patient and family.
7. Implement family integrated care & developmental care. Communicating with families to ensure they are informed and involved, seek feedback to aid positive learning.
8. Develop self to enhance their professional knowledge, skills and leadership ability.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

1. Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can.
2. Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Child Branch Nurse, Adult Nurse or Midwife on the NMC register
• Qualification in speciality. Neonatal Critical Care/ Intensive Care

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post registration experience working in a Neonatal critical care environment delivering family integrated care and supervising / mentoring junior staff
• Evidence of professional /clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical and or managerial training and CPD
• Can demonstrate understanding / experience / willingness to be a practice based supervisor / assessor as detailed in the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for student supervision and assessment
• Professional portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
• Relevant and recent clinical experience within the speciality /acute care setting, including the supervision /education of junior staff
• Experience of mentoring undergraduate students
• Evidence of ability to lead /coordinate a shift /area of department
• Experience in learning from incidents /complaints and supporting changes in practice.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Heartlands Hospital
Bordesley Green E
Birmingham
West Midlands
B9 5SS

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