nursery nurse

South Cumbria Nhs Foundation Trust; Astley Village; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an enthusiastic nursery nurse for an 8-bed Mother and Baby Unit, delivering specialist care to women with Perinatal Mental Health conditions and to their infants. You will work within a multidisciplinary inpatient team to ensure safety and support the infant's development.

The role involves caring for infants, promoting mother-infant bonding, and participating in a range of shifts (days, nights, weekends, bank holidays) to enable 24/7 care.

Qualifications

• Mandatory trainings include prevention and management of violence and aggression and basic resuscitation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of infants and promote interaction to support the mother-infant relationship.
• Care for babies in the 8-bed Mother and Baby Unit as part of a multidisciplinary inpatient team.
• Work across 24-hour shifts including days, nights, weekends and bank holidays to support service delivery.

Job description

This role is not eligible for sponsorship. Applicants must have an existing right to work in the UK and be able to maintain that right for the duration of employment without sponsorship from the Trust

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, self-motivated and committed nursery nurse to join us in our 8 bedded Mother and Baby Unit, which offers specialist treatment of women with Perinatal Mental Health difficulties. You will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team within the inpatient setting providing quality care to women and their infants.

Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the infants, promoting interaction and stimulation of infants and supporting the mums in their role as mothers.

Care is provided over a 24-hour period and team members work rotational shift patterns including days, nights, weekends and bank holidays to facilitate this.

You will be expected to complete all statutory and mandatory trainings identified by our trust which will include the prevention and management of violence and aggression and basic resuscitation, and our team are required to support the other mental health units on site when emergencies occur.

We are committed to continued professional development and therefore Specialist Perinatal training and clinical supervision will be provided.

The nursery nurse will assist mothers with perinatal mental health problems to care for their babies, ensure that the emotional and physical needs of the babies are met and engage in activities to promote the mother-infant relationship.

The core purpose of the team in which the post-holder will work, is to deliver high quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and attachment based approaches to mothers and infants.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

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