Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (Band 8a) - Neonatal Intensive Care - Liverpool Women's NH[...]

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Une opportunité passionnante s'offre pour un Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner au sein de Liverpool Women's Hospital. Ce poste de niveau Band 8a implique des soins cliniques avancés pour les nouveau-nés, y compris des responsabilités dans des situations d'urgence. L'environnement dynamique vous permettra de contribuer à un service néonatal innovant et en pleine croissance, au service des familles et des patients dans la région de Merseyside.

Qualifications

• Spécialiste en soins infirmiers néonatals avec des compétences avancées.
• Formation au niveau master et expérience significative en unité néonatale.
• Capacité à gérer de manière autonome des situations cliniques complexes.

Responsibilities

• Fournir des soins cliniques experts aux nouveaux-nés en soins intensifs.
• Participer à des situations d'urgence néonatale et gérer des décisions critiques.
• Collaborer avec une équipe pluridisciplinaire pour assurer le meilleur soin aux patients.

Skills

Autonomie

Compétences cliniques avancées

Leadership

Communication

Education

Master’s Level Award (level 7)

V300 – Non-Medical Prescribing course

Job description

Main area Neonatal Intensive Care Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Nights and weekend working) Job ref 159-LWH-124-25

Employer Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Liverpool Women's Hospital Town Liverpool Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/06/2025 23:59

Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

Band 8a

Liverpool Women’s NHS FT became part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

At Liverpool Women’s Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.

We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes us the specialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.

Liverpool Women’s has an excellent reputation and is a centre of excellence. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career for many years to come.

We invite you to review why Liverpool Women's Hospital is a great place to work: https://vimeo.com/556197652

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Job overview

Applications are invited for the post of Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) For the Liverpool Neonatal Partnership at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and the Neonatal Surgical Unit at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

A £15 million development of the Liverpool Women’s site is now complete, and the Liverpool Neonatal Partnership is developing a single neonatal service, building a new Neonatal Surgical Intensive Care unit on the Alder Hey site due for completion in 2024. The new neonatal surgical unit will facilitate optimal family integrated care provision with parent bedrooms attached.

Clinical duties will comprise a minimum 80% your working time, with up to 20% non-clinical time for supporting professional activities to include continuing professional development (CPD) and evidence of work toward the ongoing development of the service utilising the other three pillars of advanced practise ( leadership/management, research and education.)

Main duties of the job

Advanced Clinical Practice incorporating expert clinical skills and
autonomous decision making.

You will be required to fulfil a secondment to Connect North West Neonatal Transport service, which will help develop your skills as an ANNP.

You will be competent and proficient your area of clinical practice, independently managing clinical conditions, making autonomous decisions and seeking advice when appropriate.

You will demonstrate advanced communication skills, recognise the different roles and contributions of clinical staff, and be able to work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary care team.

You will evaluate your own practice; ensuring that you maintain clinical skills and competency in your area of practice and work to develop your role in line with the needs and objectives of the service. You will complete yearly clinical competency assessments.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and families. Each year we deliver over 7,500 babies, carry out over 49,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly & preterm newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles and have over 4,000 genetic appointments taking place. We believe that this along with a strong dedication to research & innovation makes usthe specialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.

We have some of the leading experts in their field, which has been showcased on national TV and news, making our teams famous across the world for professionalism, skill & compassion.

The Trust is constantly innovating and evolving it’s services to provide the most cutting edge and modern care possible. As well as developing services on our current site we have long-term aspirations for the future. We have recently launched a number of new strategies which provide a detailed long-term plan for our services.

Check out why Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is a great place to work using the links below:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities

• Have specialist knowledge of neonates gained through an ANNP training programme at master’s level and significant experience gained in a neonatal unit.
• Provide expert clinical care for babies on the unit at LWH, Alder Hey neonatal surgical unit and as part of Connect North West Neonatal transport service following appropriate training and competency assessment.
• Exhibit a strong patient and family focus in your practice; applying the principles of patient and family-centred and family integrated care and shared decision making with neonates, infants, families and carers. Act as a liaison between parents and health care professionals and gain informed consent for relevant procedures where necessary
• Attend high risk deliveries and take the lead for the resuscitation, stabilisation and safe transfer of babies using advanced resuscitation and life support techniques.
• Respond to neonatal emergency situations within agreed protocols, initiate appropriate intervention and treatment.
• Undertake independent prescribing and evaluate the effects of drug therapies, working within trust non-medical prescribing policies and guidelines.
• Maintain effective communication with parents / families about clinical decisions and plans of care, involving them in decision making and promoting a family centred approach to care.
• Provide counselling and support parents who babies are receiving intensive care. Teach and advise parents and carers in relation to their baby’s condition
• Contribute to antenatal discussions when abnormality of pregnancy identified.
• Collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary team undertaking a key role in assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating total care of the sick and well neonate in accordance with local policies and protocols.
• Communicating on an ongoing basis with the consultant neonatologists, surgeons, registrars, and other specialist teams responsible for the patient, updating him/her on changes and progress.
• Attend the ward round with members of the multidisciplinary team and contribute to the clinical management of individual patients utilising nursing / medical knowledge and skills to plan , implement and initiate changes where required. This will include monitoring and evaluating the response to treatment through analysis and interpretation of diagnostic interventions
• Participate in the National Immunisation Programme and neonatal audiology and retinopathy screening/surveillance within the department.
• Make and receive referrals to and from the collaborative care team.

Extended Practice List

• Insertion of endotracheal tubes.
• Initiation and management of all forms of mechanical ventilation
• Venepuncture and capillary blood sampling
• Peripheral and umbilical venous cannulation
• Peripheral and umbilical arterial cannulation
• Percutaneous arterial sampling
• Insertion of percutaneous central venous lines
• Withdrawal of blood from in-dwelling arterial and venous lines
• Supra-pubic aspiration of the bladder
• Lumbar puncture
• Insertion of chest drains and needle aspiration
• Removal of ETTs, PCVLs, UAC/UVCs and chest drains
• Can undertake other areas of extended practice, where it’s felt appropriate for the advancement of the service in order to deliver an improved quality service ( eg cranial US Scanning).

Management and Leadership

As a senior clinical figure in our organisation, you will be a role model for advanced clinical practice across all 4 pillars of practice. You will demonstrate this by :

• Operationalising the values and vision of the organisation and working towards these as a fundamental component of your role.
• Liaise with senior nursing and midwifery shift coordinators on the neonatal unit and delivery suite to ensure babies receive appropriate care in the appropriate place.
• Develop strong working relationships with operational support staff and give clinical guidance to benefit patient care.
• Provide the highest standard of clinical and professional leadership and management to a multidisciplinary team working shift patterns which complementing the other medical staff rotas undertaking identified shifts / sessions accordingly.
• Accept constructive challenges and look for opportunities to improve service at individual-patient, patient-cohort and organisational levels. You will also have a role in engaging beyond your organisation in clinical networks where these exist.
• Participate in service evaluation against quality or service specifications and/or national guidance and where appropriate, engage in peer review to inform and develop practice.
• Actively demonstrate an understanding of domains of Quality, and of Quality Improvement; work continuously to improve safety and quality of care in the organisation by recognised improvement methodologies and understand how this relates to national regulation.
• Engage in risk management, incident reporting, and incident investigation within your organisation and be able to share learning within and beyond your organisation through your professional networks.
• Implement new practice, and of new models of care will also be part of your role, based on your clinical, organisational and strategic knowledge and exposure.
• Lead in the development and implementation of policies, procedures and guidelines for the unit.
• Actively participate in clinical governance and risk management, respond to complaints and incidents and ensuring learning is disseminated and integrated into practice.
• Be aware of the code of professional conduct in the performance of advance nursing and be professionally accountable for own actions during the working shift.
• Provide leadership and expert clinical advice and supervision to junior medical and nursing / midwifery staff.
• Including, assessment and support to staff on the post natal ward and delivery suite.
• Encourage and guide staff to utilise resources within the department to attain and maintain high levels of medical and nursing performance.

Education Training and Professional Development

• Actively participate in an annual personal development review (PDR) covering all four pillars of practice to evidence continued competence and on-going development.
• Through sharing your experience and expertise across the organisation you will make a wider contribution to general patient care.
• Support the organisation in building capacity and capability of its workforce through participating in teaching and learning activities and the development of teaching materials.
• Continue to develop and enhance clinical and non-clinical professional skills through self-directed, independent learning. Within your team, you will identify current and future learning needs for clinical colleagues and work to meet these.
• With your excellent communications skills this will enable you to educate and empower the families and carers on how to manage their neonates or infants condition and enable them to make informed decisions about their care
• Be active in, and provide evidence of achieving the following criteria: clinical supervision and mentorship to junior medical staff on the unit.
• Act as a role model and mentor for nursing / midwifery colleagues identifying and utilising educational opportunities.
• Maintain continuous professional development and keep up to date of advances in research in neonatal care.
• Lead on the development of the multi-professional educations and training programmes
• Participate in the development of structured programmes of education and provide regular teaching sessions
• Undertake all extended role procedures according to agreed protocols with the scope of professional practice and identify areas for further advancement.
• Ensure a climate conducive to life- long learning is fostered within the Neonatal unit
• Lead in teaching of the expanded role of the nurse.

Research Audit and Evaluation, Practice and Service Development

Actively participate and engage in audit and research activities and use an expert level of knowledge to identify gaps in research and work towards filling them. You will use your internal and external professional networks to facilitate the development of this research and audit plan.

Person specification

Advanced Clinical Practice Skills, Knowledge & Aptitudes

• Broad and advanced knowledge of clinical pathophysiology
• Significant clinical experience in neonatal critical care
• Has a sound level of knowledge in relation to invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• Evidence of competence in foundation neonatal critical care-specific clinical skills
• Willingness to perform and/or learn additional advanced clinical skills appropriate to neonatal critical care
• NLS Qualification
• Competence in performing Neonatal Cranial Ultrasound scans

Leadership and manage ment

• Evidence of leadership at local level
• Ability to manage a team of patients and prioritise workload
• Operational knowledge of adjacent services
• Team building skills and ability to manage emerging practitioners'
• Experience within adjacent services

Education

• Master’s Level Award (level 7) - evidencing all 4 pillars of advanced practice capability and assessed in practice.
• V300 – Non-Medical Prescribing course
• Working towards Honorary Lecturer status with local HEI
• NLS Instructor

Research and Audit

• Research Skills

Personal Attributes

• Drive to improve the service
• Flexible and responsive to the changing needs of the service
• Highly motivated self-directed practitioner with excellent organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills verbally and written
• Well-developed facilitation and influencing skills, effective negotiation and conflict management skills
• Team Player
• Ability to lead a team to support effective safe clinical care

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: U nder current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust has a responsibility and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and for ensuring that they are protected from harm. Every employee of the Trust has a responsibility and is duty bound always to act in the best interest of a child or adult about whom we may have concerns.

Trust policy requires the cost of DBS applications be recovered via salary. The amount of £21.50(standard) or £41.50(enhanced) can be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement in post. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.40 (standard) and £54.40 (Enhanced).

The Trust is committed to creating a well-managed,flexible working environment that supports staff & promotes welfare & development. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity;we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.We operate Zero Tolerance to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.We will make reasonable adjustments to ensure our recruitment & selection process is accessible to all.Flexible Working applications will be considered.

If you are disabled and have special support needs in applying for a job, attending for an interview or in undertaking any tests as part of a selection process, please contact the Trust’s recruitment team on 0151 7064666 and someone from that team will ensure that the recruiting manager is aware of your particular needs.

Please Note: new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first paypoint of the relevant band.

LWH has a responsibility & is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of children, young people & vulnerable adults & for ensuring that they are protected from harm. Every employee of the Trust has a responsibility & is duty bound always to act in the best interest of a child or adult about whom we may have concerns.

Liverpool Women’s Hospital is committed to having a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve. To this end, we particularly welcome applicants from racially minoritised backgrounds, who have a disability, or are members of the Armed Forces, Reservists or Veterans.

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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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Name Deborah Edwards Job title Lead ANNP Neonatal unit Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01517089988 Additional information

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