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Clinical Governance and Risk Nurse / Senior Sister (NICU)

Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Location
London
Salary
£51,883 to £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Closing date
6 Nov 2024
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Profession
Nurse, Paediatric nurse, Neonatal nurse
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Band 7 Clinical Governance and Risk Nurse / Senior Sister (NICU).

Full Time 37.5 hours post

The Neonatal Unit at the Whittington is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our well established Neonatal team as a band 7 Neonatal Governance and Risk Nurse.

You will be working alongside a dynamic forward-thinking multidisciplinary team on a busy level 2 unit.

To work collaboratively with the NICU Lead Nurse and named consultant in delivering the quality, governance and safety strategy within Neonates and the wider CYP. You will also be instrumental in monitoring any risk issues and promote and encourage safety awareness within the Neonatal unit and CYP. Your role will be split between Governance and Clinical duties.

You will act as an excellent role model, providing leadership within the clinical area, displaying effective communication and interpersonal skills, as well as facilitating and teaching junior staff . Within your 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 challenging environment.

If you are dedicated to contributing to a team delivering excellence in neonatal care in neonatal nursing then Whittington Hospital is the place for you.

For further information please contact Adesegun Oremule (Ade)

( Lead Nurse) on 07787 791 758 or adesegun.oremule@nhs.net.

Main duties of the job

  • To work as Neonatal Clinical Governance and Risk Nurse (0.6 WTE) in collaboration with the neonatal consultants to ensure the effective delivery of safety, quality improvement and clinical governance activities in neonatal services.
  • To participate in all ward clinical activities as an effective team member (0.4 WTE) supporting the Lead Nurse for Neonatal Unit, taking responsibilities for coordinating, managing and supporting a team of staff within a shift.
  • To lead on risk management and incident investigations within the neonatal unit and liaise with the unit's multi-disciplinary team in implementing and supporting learning from incidents.
  • To develop and maintain best practice, following ICO, CYP and local policies.
  • To develop and update neonatal guidelines to maintain best practices.
  • To implement clinical quality and safety strategies
  • To lead on responding to complaints and disseminate actions and lessons learnt.
  • To facilitate neonatal audit activities liaising with the medical and nursing teams, Lead Nurse for Neonatal Unit, aDoN for CYP, Maternity Clinical Governance team to ensure risk management projects are prioritised and undertaken in a timely manner.


About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • To work as Neonatal Clinical Governance and Risk Nurse (0.6 WTE) in collaboration with the neonatal consultants to ensure the effective delivery of safety, quality improvement and clinical governance activities in neonatal services.
  • To participate in all ward Clinical activities as an effective team member (0.4 WTE) supporting the Lead Nurse for Neonatal Unit, taking responsibilities for coordinating, managing and supporting a team of staff within a shift.
  • To lead on risk management and incident investigations within the neonatal unit and liaise with the units multi-disciplinary team in implementing and supporting learning from incidents.
  • To develop and maintain best practice, following ICO, CYP and local policies.
  • To develop and update neonatal guidelines to maintain best practices.
  • To implement clinical quality and safety strategies
  • To lead on responding to complaints and disseminate actions and lessons learnt.
  • To facilitate neonatal audit activities liaising with the medical and nursing teams, Lead Nurse for Neonatal Unit, aDoN for CYP, Maternity Clinical Governance team to ensure risk management projects are prioritised and undertaken in a timely manner.


Person Specification

Education and Qualification

Essential

  • Registered Nurse RN/RCN
  • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
  • Degree in Nursing and Specialist CPD qualification in intensive care of the new-born.


Desirable

  • Training/qualification in Root Cause Analysis


Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Knowledge and Experience Experience in all aspects of neonatal care at Band 6 level for a minimum of TWO years
  • Understanding of CQC, CNST, GIRFT and BAPM regulations and requirements
  • Computer skills including: Excel or other spreadsheet package, Datix, Word, Power Point, good keyboard skills.


Desirable

  • Experience of clinical risk assessment.
  • Experience of report writing and minute taking


Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Skills and Abilities
  • Experience of teaching and presenting.
  • Ability to develop successful working relationships with clinicians from all disciplines and staff at all levels


Desirable

  • Ability to use root cause analysis and other patient safety tools.


Employer details

Employer name

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Whittington Hospital

London

N19 5NF

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220-WHT-2680

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