Job summary
- Main area
- RLH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 259-6264205RLH
- Employer
- Barts Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal London Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 per annum inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/05/2024
Employer heading
Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) for NICU
Band 8a
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.
Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.
Job overview
If you are a Neonatal Nurse and are looking for an exciting career working with surgical and medical Neonates as an ANNP, then come and join our wonderful teams at the Royal London Hospital Neonatal Unit. We host Neonatal Transport Service and there will be an opportunity to rotate to this Service as part of this role.
The future vision for these posts are for rotation of the ANNP’s to work at the Royal London Hospital NICU and Neonatal Transport Team providing excellent care for the neonate and family.
There is also an exciting opportunity for the suitable person to continue to help develop the SCBU and Transitional Care at RLH to be nurse led.
There is time set aside for developing within and alongside the medical and neonatal nursing team with input from the Consultant team.
The Neonatal Unit at The Royal London (London Borough of Tower Hamlets), is a level 3 Tertiary neonates with both medical and surgical cots, and ophthalmology services (nurse led in conjunction with the Opthalmology Team).
The unit comprises of 13 ITU cots, 14 HDU cots and 14 SCBU cots, with approx 650 admissions per year. There is current expansion occurring where we aim to be at 45 beds by the end of the year. These are ITU & HDU cots.
There is time set aside for teaching and your own professional development. You will be encouraged to explore an area of particular interest to you, as well as participate in clinical governance, audit, guidelines, and research.
Main duties of the job
The role aim and person specification has been developed to align with the BAPM framework 2021, this framework aims to be a resource not only for ANNPs but also employers and education providers alike, to inform service development, commissioners and healthcare providers in the planning and quality assurance of neonatal services.
- To provide high quality care to the neonate and family
- Contribute to the development of a high-quality neonatal service, on the Neonatal Unit. This will also include rotation onto the Neonatal Transfer Service.
- Practice evidence based clinical care of the neonate
- Utilise advanced skills for the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of the sick neonate.
- Promote the role of the ANNP as part of the multidisciplinary team
- Support the nursing team in providing excellent care to the sick neonate by supporting the education team, and contributing periodically to the nursing rota.
- Participate in unit MDT teaching programme and Transport teaching involving nursing, medical and ambulance staff.
- Ultimately the Rota will involve 6 month rotations between the Transport team and the Neonatal unit at the Royal London Hospital. The ANNP will be working on the Tier 2 Medical Rota.
- The post holder will be expected to work between emergency and elective teams possibly stepping into medical and nursing roles on the same day.
Working for our organisation
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.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Detailed job description and main 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
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse RSCN/RN/ RM with current NMC registration
- Masters degree in ANNP
- Relevant experience post qualification in ANNP and neonatal nursing
- ENB 405 or Equivalent QIS
- Teaching Diploma or equivalent e.g. ENB 998 or Assessment in Practice,PGCE.
Desirable criteria
- NLS Provider
- NLS Instructor
- ARNI Course Provider
- Information Technology/Word Processing certificates
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills in all aspects of Neonatal Care top allow medical registrar cover and rota.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and lead clinical workload.
- Experience of service improvement
- Competent IT skills use of Excel Word PowerPoint
- Ability to audit and survey to improve clinical/non-clinical outcomes.
- Able to prioritise and meet deadlines.
- Able to use own initiative.
- Proven oral and written communication skills demonstrate the ability to compile complex written information.
- Experience in group teaching or public speaking
Personal & people development
Essential criteria
- Able to prioritise and meet deadlines.
- Understanding of own knowledge and Skills Framework and ability to identify learning needs and interests.
- Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what their needs to learn to able to do their current job better
- Ability to take an active role in agreed learning activities and keeps a record of them for personal and revalidation.
- Demonstrates a greater understanding of learning needs and evidence of facilitations skills.
- Effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in health care settings.
- Able to manage work autonomously, but also to work within a team
- Ability to assess the work of the team and provide constructive feedback to maintain and improve performance.
Specific requirements
Essential criteria
- The post holder will be required to work shifts, on call, flexible hours.
- However, whilst on the NICU the expectation would be approximately 30 hrs on medical rota and 7.5 hrs per week shared between management day, nurse shifts, nurse education, audit and personal development.
- The post holder must be able to deal with stress of the environment, people manage, patient group manage, work closely with the junior, senior Dr’s, consultants all nursing bands and transport service, be skilled as listed above.
Communication
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as part of a multi disciplinary team.
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department and Directorate/Trust/Organisations.
- Superior communication and interpersonal skills.
- Can demonstrate an enthusiastic, approachable and friendly manner
- Good telephone skills, clear voice and ability to construct information clearly on the telephone.
- Able to communicate sensitive information to parents and families
Experience
Essential criteria
- Considerable neonatal nursing at Senior Clinical Nurse level in a neonatal unit which regularly provides intensive care.
- Ability to understand and respond in emergencies
- Experience of teaching and assessing in the clinical area.
- Child protection awareness Training
- Independent Prescribing or aim to work towards.
- Experience on Tier 2 medical rota as an ANNP.
- Neonatal Transport experience
Desirable criteria
- Neonatal Surgical experience.
- Participation in service development and implementation of change.
- Experience of external teaching, presentation at courses, conferences etc.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Deborah Jackson
- Job title
- Senior Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
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