Transitional Care Lead Nurse

Employer Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Chesterfield Town Chesterfield

Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum

Salary period Yearly

Closing 04/04/2025 08:00

Transitional Care Lead Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join Chesterfield Royal Hospital Maternity Services as a Lead Nurse for Transitional Care.

We are currently implementing Transitional care on our postnatal ward. The lead role will facilitate the implementation, management, and evaluation of the Transitional Care service, working alongside the Maternity and Neonatal teams.

The unit will care for infants who meet the criteria for Neonatal Transitional Care as described in CNST Safety Action 3. The beds are currently part of the bed base on the maternity ward at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. Our team provides high-quality care, working collaboratively to keep mothers and babies together, avoiding separation and admission to the neonatal care unit.

Our maternity inpatient ward offers a calm and welcoming environment for women and their families, whilst Chesterfield Birth Centre provides co-located midwife and consultant-led labour ward facilities, including 4 birthing pools.

We are a fully accredited Baby Friendly unit.

Our Community Midwifery service centers around 4 local bases/GP surgeries which provide care for around 2500 women per year.

Main duties of the job

The overriding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

To work as the Lead Nurse, to lead and work alongside the Ward Leader in providing high standards of holistic transitional care, ensuring that it is evidence-based and compliant with best practice recommendations for Transitional Care services (TC).

Working for our organisation

Our vision: Exceptional patient care provided by exceptional people.

Our mission: To bring our people, communities, and partners together, providing patient care we are proud of. We all play a part in achieving this, by living up to the values we promise to our patients and each other. As members of staff, we will always be guided by our Proud to CARE values:

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well-performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak, and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and good financial control, currently operating with a positive financial surplus and was recently rated “Good” by the CQC.

We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long-term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high-quality services and excellent patient care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the relevant job description and person specification for the full qualifications, skills, and experience required for this post.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Registered with the NMC
• Recognised teaching qualification or experience.
• Qualified in Speciality (neonates) or equivalent course.
• Evidence of having completed relevant further study or trained relevant to the post.
• Recognised management or leadership qualification.
• Trained in clinical supervision.
• Experience / Knowledge of recruitment and retention, appraisal, sickness, and absence management.

Experience

• Band 6 level experience in a neonatal unit.
• Neonatal Advanced life support training.
• Ability to manage staff and manage a change in service.
• Ability to manage own and other people's time effectively.
• Community Experience.
• Knowledge of staff appraisal.
• Understanding of HR policies and processes.
• Experience of managing conflict.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Evidence of practice or policy change arising from audit.
• Evidence of practice development.

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to apply evidence-based practice.
• Awareness and understanding of current neonatal issues in relation to Transitional Care.
• Knowledge of clinical governance and commitment to develop a team.
• Evidence of change management.
• Evidence of multiagency and regional working.

Demonstrates our Proud to CARE Values

• Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement

Personal Attributes

• Good understanding of IT and systems.
• Ability to work in a hospital environment flexibly.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly.

Contact Information

Name: Tracey Twell

Job title: Senior Matron - Inpatient Maternity Services

Email address: tracey.twell@nhs.net

Telephone number: 01246 513128