Community Neonatal Staff Nurse The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Popular Plumbing and Heating Corp; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a motivated nurse to join their Community Neonatal Outreach Team. This role offers the chance to deliver exceptional family-centered care, supporting families transitioning from a Level 3 Neonatal Unit. As part of a diverse and inclusive team, you'll gain valuable experience across various clinical areas while contributing to high standards of patient care. The organization is committed to your professional development, offering in-house training and support for specialized courses. If you're passionate about neonatal nursing and want to make a real impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible Working Arrangements

In-house Training

Support for Professional Development

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a focus on neonatal care and family-centered practices.
• Ability to assess, plan, and implement nursing care for patients.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality nursing care and participate in patient assessments.
• Deliver compassionate care and maintain accurate patient records.
• Support the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse with E-rostering.

Skills

Compassionate Care

Patient Assessment

Communication Skills

Nursing Care

Supervision and Teaching

Education

Nursing Degree

Neonatal Nurse Foundation Course

Qualified in Specialty Course

Job description

We are looking for a motivated confident nurse to join our Community Neonatal Outreach Team (NCOT). We provide a 7 day service supporting families transferred home from our Level 3 Neonatal Unit which is part of the Staffordshire, Shropshire & Black Country Neonatal Operational Delivery Network and includes 7 ICU, 7 HDU and 12 SCBU cots. The neonatal unit is embedded within the Women's and Neonatal directorate ensuring seamless care throughout pregnancy, birth and postnatal period; including our recently restructured Transitional care ward which can support 12 mothers. Nurses will have the opportunity to work within all areas, developing skills and knowledge.

RWT neonatal unit is committed to working to nationally recognised staffing standards and to achieving Baby Friendly standards in order to provide excellent family centred and psychosocial care for our patients and families.

We provide support and training both in-house and via the local University and New-born Network. All nurses will be expected and supported to undertake neonatal nurse foundation course and the qualified in specialty course within two years.

This is a rotational post, working within all of the neonatal clinical areas. Ideally the post holder would commence within the Neonatal Unit to gain experience prior to rotating out to the community team.

Responsibilities:

1. To provide high quality nursing care and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care needs for the patient group.
2. To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and respect.
3. To provide relevant forms of care with minimal supervision and participate in the supervision and teaching and assessment of unregistered or junior staff and students.
4. To play an active part in the continuing development of the ward or department and contribute to the maintenance of an environment conducive to the delivery of high standards of patient care.
5. To maintain accurate and legible records of care and other documentation in accordance with Trust and professional standards.
6. To communicate effectively with patients and relatives to promote patient/carer involvement, so that they can make informed choices and understand their treatment and planned care.
7. To support the Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse with E-rostering, ensuring compliance with key performance indicators.

Minimum Requirements:

1. UK full driving license and car owner.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

This advert closes on Sunday 20 Apr 2025.