Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

NHS; Gateshead; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS in Gateshead is recruiting an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner to deliver holistic, autonomous care for babies on the SCBU, delivery suite and postnatal wards. You will assess, stabilise and manage neonates, working closely with Paediatric Consultants and the MDT.

The role requires a Master’s in Advanced Clinical Practice with non-medical prescribing and senior clinical leadership skills. You will supervise staff, lead audits, contribute to guidelines and teach the team, while

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical practice with autonomous decision-making and management.
• Experience in neonatal specialty and quality improvement.
• Exposure to clinical governance and guideline development.
• Teaching and supervising learners in multidisciplinary settings.

Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive neonatal assessments and management on SCBU.
• Lead clinical audits and apply research to practice.
• Provide senior clinical leadership within the multidisciplinary team.
• Deliver education and training to staff and supervise learners.
• Provide proactive holistic service for newborns on SCBU, delivery-suite and postnatal wards.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Advanced neonatal care

Audit & research

Education & training

Education

Master's degree in advanced clinical practice

Non-medical prescribing qualification

Teaching experience

Job description

An autonomous role to provide aproactive, effective holistic service for neonates on the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU), delivery-suite & postnatal wards. This includes responsibility for the clinical care & management for babies in SCBU & transitional care

Support the ward manager & provide clinical leadership including supervision of staff, audit & research, clinical governance, development of evidence-based guidelines & training/education

A Master's degree in Advanced Clinical Practice including completion of a non-medical prescribing qualification & independent advanced clinical skills is essential aspart of the Tier 1 rota

Identify sick infants who subsequently require management on the SCBU including initial assessment, stabilisation, & management, including passive cooling, ventilation, fluids, drug therapy & other resultant treatments. They will work closely with Paediatric Consultants & other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Role model to all staff & part of the senior team to improve & maintain standards & provide comprehensive advice and guidance to all departments.

To manage & lead complex situations in the absence of paediatric medical cover, making judgements involving complex facts, requiring analysis & interpretation to monitor & evaluate outcomes in patient-centred care.

To undertake nurse-led initiatives & procedures according to set protocols & procedures.

Main duties of the job

Advanced clinical practice is delivered by experienced, registered nurse/midwives. It is a level of practice with a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making. This is underpinned by a Master's degree that encompasses the 4 pillars of:

• clinical practice
• leadership & management
• education
• research,

The Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner will:

• Use advanced knowledge and skills in Neonatal care to undertake comprehensive clinical assessments, make decisions based on clinical reasoning and initiate, evaluate, and modify a range of interventions.
• Provide professional senior clinical leadership and support within the specialty multi professional team and across service boundaries.
• Support the wider team to build capacity and capability through work-based and interprofessional learning, and the application of learning to practice. Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach, and mentor
• Lead clinical audits and critically engage in research activity using the results to underpin own practice, inform the practice of others and make organisational recommendations.
• Provide a proactive, effective holistic service for newborn infants on SCBU, delivery-suite and postnatal wards. This includes responsibility for the clinical care and management for babies in SCBU.

Assume lead clinical oversight for transitional care babies on the postnatal ward, NIPE screening and liaise with the multi-disciplinary team to achieve the aim of reducing avoidable admissions to the SCBU.

About us

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

Job responsibilities

See attached job description for further details about role, essential and desirable criteria.

The Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) will develop advanced knowledge and skills to meet the capabilities presented in the multi-professional framework for advanced Clinical Practice in England multi-professionalframeworkforadvancedclinicalpracticeinengland.pdf (hee.nhs.uk)

Qualifications

• Master's degree in advanced clinical practice
• Teaching experience

Experience

• Experience in specialty
• Quality improvement experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.