Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse, Band 7- Neonates

Are you an experienced, expert leader in neonatal care with a specialty qualification? Join our well-established and friendly team and as a part of our senior neonatal leadership team, you'll play a crucial role in maintaining high standards of care, developing services, and compassionately leading the team.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate proven leadership qualities, showcase clinical excellence and promote innovative practice while working closely with the multidisciplinary team. You'll manage day-to-day activities across ITU, HDU, Special Care, and Transitional cots, ensuring effective and safe decision-making. In addition to your leadership responsibilities, you'll actively participate in staff management and leadership, leveraging your outstanding communication skills to foster a collaborative work environment. Familiarity with risk, governance, and safeguarding processes is essential to excel in this role.

If you're passionate about neonatal care and ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you. Join us in providing the best care to our patients and become an integral part of our dedicated team. Apply now to be considered for this exciting opportunity.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a clinical expert, providing safe and effective care, leading and managing care provision for a total of 28 cots (12 ITU/HDU, 16 Special Care) & 4 Transitional Care cots on the post-natal ward.

You will have extensive experience, knowledge and understanding to be able to act as a resource for the multi-disciplinary team to provide high quality, evidence based care and work collaboratively with families and service users to enhance service provision. As a compassionate leader, you will support the team to be the best they can be, supporting their health and well-being, and actively encouraging their professional development.

You will be committed, engaging and proactive, and strive for nursing excellence in neonatal care.

About us

We will offer you a structured induction that is tailored to successful candidates. We will provide you with a supportive environment, which allows you to professionally develop, and contribute to exemplary professional practice.

In addition, you will work in partnership with a key range of stakeholders to enhance your understanding of the team and how your role supports local and organisational strategies.

Job responsibilities

• Demonstrate proven change management skills.
• An ability to perform clinical skills with dexterity.
• Knowledge of clinical governance, policy and procedure and quality assurance frameworks.
• An understanding of evidence based practice and willingness to lead, encourage and motivate staff to participate in nursing research.
• IT skills which can be built upon to incorporate the use of hospital administration, information and training systems.
• Organisation and time management skills.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of Safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Recognised management course or equivalent level of skill gained through experience.
• NLS Qualification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Active registration with the NMC as a Registered Nurse.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of a professional portfolio, registration revalidation & commitment to lifelong learning.
• Recognised Post Graduate qualification in Neonatal Nursing.
• Recognised Leadership qualification.
• Recognised Mentoring and Assessing in Clinical Practice course.

Desirable

• MSc or MA e.g. completion of modules at Level 7.
• Recognised workforce planning qualification.
• Degree in Nursing.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of leading and managing a neonatal unit and neonatal clinical competence.
• Knowledge and experience of working at a middle management level in an NHS acute area.
• Experience of leading and managing a team.
• Knowledge and experience of change management, quality assurance processes and working within a budget.
• Evidence of development and evaluation of training resources.
• Up to date and experienced in safeguarding procedure and policy.
• Passion for teaching, education and practice development and ability to professionally develop individuals.
• Demonstrates commitment to research based practice and clinical excellence and plays an active part in the introduction of research based change to improve patient centred care.

Desirable

• Research aware.

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

Gloucester

GL1 3NN

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