Neonatal Transport Nurse

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join NHS as a Senior Band 6 nurse in the Neonatal Transfer Service, focused on caring for critically ill neonates across London. This role offers an opportunity to enhance your skills in a supportive team while ensuring high standards of care in a challenging environment.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Induction programme and ride-out shifts

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years tertiary NICU experience required.
• Experience delivering care to acute neonates in a tertiary level 3 NICU at band 6 or above.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the Neonatal Transfer Team.
• Facilitate neonatal transfers across London and the Southeast.
• Work within a small team to stabilize and transfer sick neonates.

Skills

Cultural sensitivity

Clinical supervision

Reflective practice

Education

Diploma/Degree in Nursing

RSCN/RN

ENB 405 (or equivalent)

NLS

Accredited study days/courses

Job description

Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity; we have a vacancy on the Neonatal Transfer Service London for Senior Band 6 nurses with a minimum of 3 years tertiary (level 3) NICU experience to apply for positions on London's only dedicated neonatal transfer service.

Come and join us to learn and develop your skills and knowledge towards being an experienced neonatal transport nurse, caring for a range of sick neonates who require transfer across the London area and beyond. This career path will allow you to develop your portfolio, experience working within a small team setting, stabilising and transferring some of the sickest babies across London and the wider counties.

You will also become established on the single-clinician led High/low dependency transfer team.

If successful you would be welcomed into a friendly team consisting of 3 Neonatal Consultants, specialist registrars/clinical fellows, Matron; PDN and experienced transport nurses. These team members are complemented by technicians from St John Ambulance Service

You will commence with an induction programme and ride-out shifts with support. Shifts include rotation between dual and single clinician teams, days, including a twilight team, nights and weekends. Full and part time options can be discussed.At Barts Health, we enable flexible working patterns where possible.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead by example as an expert specialist neonatal nurse on the Neonatal Transfer Team for London. To work as part of a team in facilitating neonatal transfers across London and the Southeast.

About us

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.

Job 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

• RSCN/RN
• ENB 405 (or equivalent)/ Qualified in specialty HDU & ITU
• NLS
• Diploma/Degree in related topic e.g. BSc Nursing Attendance at accredited study days/courses.

Experience

• Proven and current full-time experience, delivering care to acute neonates, in a tertiary level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at a band 6 or above
• Experience of reflective practice; clinical supervision.

Knowledge

• Evidence of understanding the needs of culturally diverse families
• Good understanding of clinical governance

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.