This is an exciting opportunity to come and join our PAN London Neonatal Retrieval Team, based within a busy Teaching Hospital in North East London. Barts Health NHS Trust has a vision to be a high performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Neonatal/Paediatric Intensive Care Practice Development Nurse, who is keen to enhance the skills and confidence of our continually developing team someone who is able to create an environment for staff development that is supportive and encourages staff education. You will have exposure to the operational aspects of running a transport service, and delivering education/ outreach learning to both our service users and the NTS team. If successful you would be welcomed into a friendly multidisciplinary team . There is also the opportunity to train to become flight competent, (currently privately provided). You will be based at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. For further information please contact: Sharon Lott, NTS Matron, Sharon.lott@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

We are a PAN London Neonatal Retrieval Team, based within a busy Teaching Hospital in Northeast London. We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Neonatal/Paediatric Practice Development Nurse, who is keen to enhance the skills and confidence of our continually developing team someone who is able to create an environment for staff development that is supportive and encourages staff education. The post holder will provide continuing support to all clinical staff in their delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, and through a process of support/supervision enable staff/teams to assess, prescribe/develop, implement, and evaluate standards/programmes of care, providing advice and support to develop methods to evaluate care delivered where required. Ensure that agreed Standards are followed to provide a safe environment for both the children and relatives. Ensure that effective communication exists between themselves, nursing colleagues, medical staff, multidisciplinary teams, patients and/or their relatives, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate. Deliver educational programmes in relation to Clinical Practice and Professional Development to support service delivery.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• RGN/RSCN / RN Child with current NMC Registration Neonatal Intensive Care
• Current Tertiary NICU/PICU/Retrieval Role - minimum 3 years at B6/7
• ENB 405 or equivalent
• Assessing and Mentoring Qualification
• Educated to degree level or working towards
• Evidence of NICU/PICU teaching experience
• Evidence of advanced Neonatal/Paediatric resuscitation training

Desirable

• Leadership course/development programme
• Formal Teaching and Research experience
• Evidence of participation in QI project/audits
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Knowledge

Essential

• Communicates in a manner that is consistent with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.
• Is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating.
• Is appropriate to the purpose of the communication and the context in which it is taking place
• Encourages the effective participation of all involved
• Is proactive in seeking out different styles and methods of communicating to assist longer term needs and aims
• Provides feedback to other workers on their communication at appropriate times
• Takes a proactive role in producing accurate and complete records of communication consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures

Desirable

• Quality focussed approach
• Recognises and reflects on barriers to effective communication and modifies communication in response.

Skills

Essential

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to implement change in order to improve patient care planning and delivery of education and training at all levels
• Clinical leadership skills.
• Adaptable, and flexible and able to deal with changing workloads
• Current role within L3 tertiary NICU/PICU

Desirable

• Ability to collect and analyse data using computerised reporting systems

Other

Essential

• Positive attitude and ability to work under pressure
• Takes responsibility for own learning.
• Enthusiasm for clinical speciality
• Demonstrates ability to work as part of a team, the Children's Division, the ODN and the wider clinical networks

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Royal London Hospital

London

E1 1FR

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