Staff Nurse Neonatal/Transitional Care Unit

Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000

Job description

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

About

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Key details

Location

Site: St Helier Hospital
Town: Carshalton
Postcode: SM5 1AA
Major / Minor Region: Surrey

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent: pro rata per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (11.5 hour shifts, Days, nights and weekends.)

• Full time
• Part time

Salary

Salary: £28,407 - £34,581 pro rata per annum incl HCAS (Outer London)
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: Band 5

Specialty

Main area: Neonatal *The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.

Job overview

Do you believe that keeping mothers and babies together should be the cornerstone of newborn care? If so, this is the role for you!

It is an exciting time for Neonatal services at St Helier's as we expand to support our Maternity colleagues to deliver exceptional Neonatal Transitional Care (NTC). The post holder will be part of the Neonatal nursing team and work flexibly across the Neonatal unit and Postnatal ward, depending on service need.

The successful post holder will work alongside families, supporting and teaching parents to care for their newborn or premature babies in preparation for discharge home. The post holder will be expected to work independently, under the supervision of the neonatal transitional care lead. With a team of bands 4's already in place, further expansion of the service will see the addition of a band 5 neonatal nurse on every shift. This will enable the service to provide a gold standard NTC service, offering NGT feeding at the bedspace next to the resident parent.

Please note this role is a shift worker position, as such you would be expected to work a variety of long days, nights, weekends and bank holidays. We aim to recruit staff to a start date of 1/4/25; however, this date could be flexible for the right candidate. For further information, email Manju, NTC Lead, details as below.

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To promote a friendly and supportive atmosphere for parents and relatives in which they can learn to care for their babies. To utilise a variety of strategies to communicate effectively with the neonate’s family/carers, the multidisciplinary team, other departments within the Trust and pertinent agencies outside the organisation. Support the nursing team in providing advice on breastfeeding, developmental care, family integrated care and parent education.

Working for our organisation

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Neonatal Nursery Nurse role at Epsom and St Helier.

Your application

References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date

Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly. DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Disability Advice Line:

The SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our Confidential Disability Advice Line at:
Telephone: [phone]
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected]

Our confidential answering service is available after 5pm.

Applicant requirements

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• * RN/RSCN/RM with current registration
• * Nursing degree

Desirable criteria

• * Qualified in speciality (SCBU, HDU, ITU) or willingness to undertake

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• • Ability to organise/prioritise own workload.
• • Ability to be responsive/reactive and flexible.
• • Able to promote team spirit.
• • Good verbal and written communication skills.
• • Good interpersonal skills.
• • Organisational Skills.
• • Good working knowledge of professional nursing issues relating to children e.g. safeguarding.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of Baby friendly neonatal standards

Experience

Essential criteria

• Prior experience working in a healthcare setting in neonatal/paediatrics/maternity.
• Experience supporting breastfeeding.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in Neonatal or maternity unit.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Good verbal and written skills.
• Good interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Computer skills.

Documents

• Revised JD Special Care/Transitional Care support worker (768.3) PDF
• DBS Policy (101.1) PDF
• We're here to care (39.0) DOC
• JD supplementary information (151.9) PDF

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Jean Regan
Job title: Neonatal Matron
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 020 8296 2249

For further information please contact the NTC lead nurse as below;

Mrs Manju Kurup
[email protected]