Senior Sister/Charge Nurse/Midwife Transitional Care and ATAIN

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Luton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Luton is looking for an experienced Midwife or Neonatal Nurse to lead the Transitional Care Unit. This role involves ensuring compliance with care standards, managing quality improvement projects, and working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team. You will have opportunities for professional development and be part of a commitment to patient-centered care. The position comes with the potential for leadership in transitional care initiatives and networking opportunities within wider healthcare forums.

Benefits

Opportunities for professional development

Supportive working environment

Access to high-quality training programs

Qualifications

• Experience in midwifery or neonatal nursing.
• Ability to lead quality improvement initiatives.
• Strong understanding of care standards in a neonatal context.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high standards of care in transitional care units.
• Lead ATAIN projects trust wide.
• Participate in transitional care forums.
• Support quality improvement and audit processes.

Skills

Data analysis

Quality improvement

Education and training

Networking

Unit management

Education

Registered Midwife or Neonatal Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This exciting new role will be a great opportunity for an experienced Midwife or Neonatal Nurse to be part of a multi-disciplinary team that looks at transitional care of the newborn and the ATAIN project. This role will focus on ensuring that the transitional care units are BAPM and MIS compliant, and to lead on the ATAIN reviews and any learning that comes from this. This role will involve quality improvement, data analysis, education, networking and unit management. As part of this exciting role you will also act as the lead for the new Transitional Care Unit that is on the footprint of the brand new NICU on the Luton and Dunstable site.

The post holder will:

• Work to ensure a high standard of care is provided in the newborn transitional care units across the trust
• Lead on the transitional care and ATAIN projects trust wide ensuring that BAPM and MIS standards are met
• Work as part of the wider MDT to ensure that babies are cared for in the appropriate environment to reduce parental separation as much as possible and promote family integrated care
• Participate in local, regional, national and international transitional care forums

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Lead on the implementations of guidelines and policies in relation to transitional care and the ATAIN project
• Explore more efficient and effective ways of providing a high standard of family centred care and utilisation of resources
• In conjunction with the MDT develop a mechanism for setting goals and benchmarking standards of care. Develop tools to improve the quality of the service and co-ordinate clinical services across the ward/dept.
• Support systems for sharing good practice within the ward/dept and trust wide
• Pilot clinical programmes
• Where necessary work clinically to support unit activity and to promote learning and best practice

Education responsibilities

• Guide and support staff in their professional development and clinical competence
• Through a process of continual assessment, identify development opportunities for staff, and in collaboration with service colleagues, develop programmes to facilitate the identified opportunities, through working in the clinical area with individuals
• Guide and support staff in the monitoring and assessment for all learners in the clinical area
• Reviewing and managing the performance of all staff by identifying their educational and other needs, annual IPR and objectives
• Ensuring the orientation of staff and preceptorship in in-service training
• Disseminate any learning from ATAIN reviews ensuring that the appropriate persons/teams are involved and if appropriate action plans are formulated and undertaken

Management Responsibilities

• Act as ward manager for the designated transitional care areas
• Working with the senior teams for maternity and neonatal to ensure that all staff line management responsibilities are undertaken appropriately
• Liaise with the MDT to ensure that seamless transition of care between transitional care, neonatal and maternity services
• Act as link with regional and national bodies in regards to transitional care and ATAIN
• Be responsible for in conjunction with the senior teams the implementation and monitoring of clinical quality indicators in relation to the transitional care units. This will include but not exhaustive: CQC outcomes; Infection control – no avoidable infection strategy; Quality and accuracy of documentation; Improving the patient experience; HSIB reviews; SI, RCA and Complaint investigation

Audit and Project Management

• Lead on the undertaking of audits in relation to ATAIN and Transitional Care
• Analyze audit data and implement any actions required
• Chair ATAIN review meetings and work with the governance and QI admin teams to ensure accurate minutes
• Work with the maternity and neonatal governance teams to ensure that transitional care and ATAIN reviews are undertaken in compliance with MIS safety actions
• Act as the lead for the MIS mandated improvement project in relation to ATAIN
• Prepare reports and feedback at trust, LMNS, regional and national meetings in relation to transitional care and ATAIN

This advert closes on Friday 26 Sep 2025