Neonatal Senior Staff Nurse

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated neonatal nurse with the relevant qualifications, to join our dedicated team to cover one year Maternity leave, We currently provide intensive care for sick babies born from 27 weeks gestation (or 28/40 twins) requiring Intensive, High Dependency and Special Care. The unit comprises of 16 Cots.

Main duties of the job

As a skilled nurse you will play a key role within the nursing team, providing quality family centred care. You will act as a good role model and provide leadership within the clinical area, displaying effective communication and interpersonal skills, as well as facilitating and teaching junior staff and nursing and midwifery students.

As part of the role you will be supported in developing your management responsibilities, taking charge of daily activities on the unit and utilizing skills required for working in a diverse environment.

We are committed to staff development and offer in-house and external courses/ training.

We have strong links with Greenwich and London University's where you will be able to undertake further training and development as required, enabling you to progress your neonatal career.

This is an exciting time to join the team with an ever growing annual birth rate. And work across our two level 2 Units within the Trust.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To act as a role model and provide leadership in the clinical area. To demonstrate advanced clinical skills in order to provide the highest standard of individualised patient care whilst supervising the work of others.

• The post holder will play a key role in the nursing team to provide a quality family centred and supportive environment where parents/carers can learn to care for their babies.
• To utilise a variety of strategies to communicate effectively with family/carers the multidisciplinary team, other departments within the Trust and pertinent agencies outside the organisation.
• To actively participate in and contribute to the management of the clinical area.
• To act as a mentor, teaching and supervising junior staff including, student nurses, student midwives, and health care support workers. To support, teach and facilitate junior medical staff as well as staff in other departments such as Delivery Suite and Post-natal wards.
• Provide assessment, planning, organisation and co-ordination of care needs to a total patient group.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• RSCN / RN Child / RM / RN with current registration
• Neonatal Intensive Care Course (formerly ENB 405) or equivalent.
• Mentor Course (formally ENB 998/997) or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Diploma/Degree in relevant field
• Enhanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Course (ENNP)

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Significant experience as a Band 5 staff nurse within neonatal care.
• Significant post Neonatal Intensive Care Course (formally ENB 405)
• Evidence of recent studies in relevant field

Desirable criteria

• Neonatal Advanced Life Support
• Facilitating and teaching students

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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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

• JD (PDF, 301.4KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)