26 Oct
University Hospitals Bristol Nhs Foundation Trust
Bristol
Band 5
Main area: Neonatal Care
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
- Full time
- Part time
37.5 hours per week (Monday to Sunday Days and Nights)
Job ref: 387-WC-4860-SL-C
Site: St Michaels Hospital
Town: Bristol
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/11/2024 23:59
As an organisation we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
Join our NICU Team as a Staff Nurse for a March 2025 Start
We are excited to invite a compassionate and dedicated Staff Nurse to join our dynamic Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) team in March 2025. This is a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact in neonatal nursing, working within one of the most respected NICUs in the South West.
Why Join Us?
Our NICU is a Level 3 Tertiary Centre, one of only three in the South West neonatal network, where we provide expert care for babies with complex needs, including respiratory, surgical, neurological, and cardiac conditions, as well as pre-term and full-term infants. We are deeply committed to delivering outstanding family-centred care, ensuring the best outcomes for our babies and their families.
What We Offer:
You’ll be joining a highly skilled and experienced multidisciplinary team (MDT), comprising nurses, nursery nurses, medics, consultants, and allied healthcare professionals. Our team is united by a shared philosophy: working together with families to provide high-quality,
individualised care in a supportive environment.
We are dedicated to ongoing professional development, offering a wide range of opportunities, including university-accredited courses and in-house training for specialist roles.
Main duties of the job
- Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate prescribed treatment and care for patients and their families
- Communicate effectively and maintain confidentiality with patient’s carers and the multi-disciplinary team
- Act as a professional role model setting standards of practice
- Promote clinical effectiveness and opportunities for teaching junior colleagues and students
- Promote and maintain a safe environment for patients.
- Administer medicines in accordance with Trust policy.
- Develop clinical skills and participate in continuous professional development
- Provide accurate timely contemporary records of care and treatment in line with Trust record keeping policy and NMC
Please ensure that you complete a full application detailing why you would like to work in our NICU.
At this time, we are unable to support nurses or midwives who require OSCE to register with the NMC UK. Unfortunately, such applications will not be considered.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites,
serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.
UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Join us and you will benefit from:
- 8-12 weeks supernumerary period dependent on experience
- Indepth induction programme.
- Excellent training and development opportunities. We run the QIS (Qualified in Specialty) course in Bristol in partnership with University of West of England.
- Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) trained nurses who are part of the Family and Infant Neurodevelopmental Education (FINE) faculty, providing FINE training to the multi-disciplinary team.
- Support from our in-house Education team and SIM training
- Phillips ICCA system for all monitoring, prescribing and documentation.
We support flexible and part-time working.
St Michaels Hospital is located in the heart of vibrant Bristol – a beautiful city bursting with character and providing many opportunities to achieve a true work-life balance.
Person specification
Qualifications
- RSCN Part 8/RN (Child branch, part 15) or RN qualification
- Current NMC Registration
- Post Basic Certificate or related study in Neonatal Critical Care
- 1st Degree in Nursing or health related subject or working towards
Skills
- Demonstrate competence in clinical skills relevant to the clinical area
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate effectively with patients, carers and MDT
- Competence in calculations for safe administration of medicines/fluids
- Ability to initiate and ensure appropriate action in response to the deteriorating patient
- Clinical decision making ability
- Ability to work with minimum supervision
- Act in a professional manner
- Self-motivated
- A team player
- Recognition of own limits
- Teaching/supervisory skills
Knowledge
- Broad knowledge and experience of clinical nursing practice within a hospital environment
- Interest in the clinical area
- Experience of teaching
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
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▶️ Staff Nurse - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
🖊️ University Hospitals Bristol Nhs Foundation Trust
📍 Bristol