Neonatal Nursery Nurse inWinchester inWinchester PUBLISHED
MON 21 OCT 2024
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 4 Neonatal Nursery Nurse to join their collaborative Neonatal team in Winchester. The role involves providing high-quality nursing care to a group of babies under the supervision of qualified staff, supporting family integrated care principles, and working closely with multidisciplinary teams. Key responsibilities include assessing and planning care, supporting feeding practices in line with Trust policies, maintaining accurate patient records, and ensuring adherence to health and safety and infection control standards.
The successful candidate will play a vital role in communicating effectively with patients, families, and agencies to ensure seamless care, while also contributing to the development of unit policies. Candidates must demonstrate computer literacy and a commitment to safeguarding and health protocols. The position offers flexibility in working arrangements, promoting a supportive work environment. Further details about the Trust and position can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification.
The successful candidate will play a vital role in communicating effectively with patients, families, and agencies to ensure seamless care, while also contributing to the development of unit policies. Candidates must demonstrate computer literacy and a commitment to safeguarding and health protocols. The position offers flexibility in working arrangements, promoting a supportive work environment. Further details about the Trust and position can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification.
We are looking for a Band 4 Nursery Nurse to join our friendly Neonatal team.
- To work within NNU as part of the multidisciplinary team, promoting the unit philosophy of family integrated care.
- o provide a high standard of nursing care under the supervision of qualified members of the team.
- to work with senior staff to assess patients, plan and implement care and maintain colleagues within the hospital, parents, carers and patients.
- Manage a group of babies under the supervision of a trained nurse, providing evidence based care. Work with supervision and as part of a team in the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of care to children in the hospital setting.
- Responsible for adherence to Trust policies and procedures.
- Contribute to the development of unit policies and procedures.
- Report any Safeguarding concerns to the senior nurse immediately
- Support mothers with breast, artificial and nasogastric tube feeding, in line with Trust Policies and BFI recommendations.
- Maintain accurate, contemporaneous records of patient care and liaison.
- Ensure good communication with patients, families and multi agencies to promote seamless care.
- Be computer literate with the ability to use hospital information systems, email, access the internet, word process etc.
- Ensure that health and safety policy is followed, notifying senior staff of any shortfall in standards.
- Take all steps to ensure personal, clients and visitors' health and safety are not put at risk.
- Manual handling of patients and equipment on a daily basis.
- Notify senior nurse of clinical incidents/concerns promptly.
- Ensure the practice of self and others is compliant with infection control policies and procedures
- To ensure the practice of self and others is compliant with BOTH the safeguarding children's policy and guidance and vulnerable adults' policy
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Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
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