Staff Nurse

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust; Greenhill; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust is offering a development post in neonatal care designed to provide a clear pathway to becoming a qualified Neonatal Nurse. The role focuses on delivering high-caliber nursing care to special care infants and their families within a supportive, teaching environment.

The post emphasizes learning through hands-on care, mentorship of junior staff, and close liaison with families to ensure safe discharge planning and infant well-being.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for special care infants and their families.
• Provide a high standard of direct nursing care.
• Supervise and support junior and unqualified staff and contribute to their ongoing development.
• Communicate effectively with service users to benefit the infant's well-being.
• Administer prescribed medications safely and monitor their effects.
• Respond promptly to adverse events or deterioration in the baby's condition and support the team.
• Participate in discharge planning with parents/carers.

Job description

Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing care needs of a group of special care infants and their families without direct supervision. He/she will provide a high standard of direct nursing care. Supervision and support of junior and unqualified members of staff, assisting with their on-going development at all times. The post holder will be an effective communicator, liaising closely with all service users in order to benefit the infants well-being This is a development post, designed to provide an individual pathway to qualified Neonatal Nurse status To provide full care to Special Care infants and their family To participate in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care provided to individual infants and their families. To ensure that parents/carers achieve confidence with assistance and support to enable them to care for their baby in preparation for discharge. To safely administer prescribed medication and to monitor their effects Respond to any adverse effects or deterioration in the baby's condition with appropriate degree of urgency and support the team when this situations occur

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We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.