Job overview

Are you a Qualified in speciality Neonatal Nurse with experience of working within a neonatal environment, who is looking for a new and exciting challenge with the opportunity to enhance your leadership, management and professional development? Why not consider joining our neonatal unit at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and let us help facilitate your professional journey.

For this role you will need to:

• Have current NMC registration and post registration experience
• Work as a skilled member of a nursing team.  
• Assist in the provision of high standards of holistic family-centred care to neonates and their families. 
• Assist in the creation of a welcoming, caring and safe environment for neonates and their families.
• Undertake management of Unit under supervision of senior staff 
• Work in partnership with the medical staff and multidisciplinary team. 
• Provide and develop evidence based care within the Unit

Experience of working in a neonatal Environment is essential.

Main duties of the job

Providing effective, individual nursing care for the neonate

Assessing the neonate’s physical, psychological and social problems and need for nursing assistance.

Acting as a role model for the newly qualified nurses.

Supervising the preparation and updating of the nursing care plans including treatment delegated by the medical staff

Integrating care and treatments from other disciplines into care plans.

Giving skilled nursing care and treatments underpinned by current research

 Planning the involvement of the neonates’ family, teaching and supervising techniques in preparation for the transfer home.

Teaching parents how to maintain health at home and develop parenting skills

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.