Job overview

As a band 6 Neonatal Nurse at Salisbury NHS Trust (SFT) you will form part of an established nursing team, you will act as a senior, positive role model for your colleagues, demonstrate clinical competence and effective leadership skills. You will be responsible for coordinating shifts, allocating duties to junior staff members, and ensuring patient safety is prioritised by communicating effectively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team.

You will be required to deliver individualised, holistic care to a diverse population, acknowledging the needs of the infant and family. You must be skilled in communication so that you are able to fulfil this requirement effectively.  Infants may have urgent critical care needs that require prompt action, you should be confident to respond to these situations and support the team.

Our nurses must promote a positive attitude and motivate staff members to deliver compassionate care whilst developing themselves professionally, we will support you to achieve this.

Main duties of the job

1. The post holder will be professionally accountable for the maintenance of standards and professional practice as set by the NMC Code of Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour and relevant professional guidelines.
2. They will regularly take charge of the Neonatal Unit or defined area of the practice setting/group of patients and take responsibility for ensuring the coordination and direct provision of high standard of holistic, patient centred care by assessing nursing care and health education needs, and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care for each patient.
3. To be designated to act as a deputy to the person holding continuing responsibility for the organisation and management of the Neonatal service.
4. To provide support and guidance for the Neonatal service during nights and weekends and communicating with SFT Site teams in the absence of the Senior Nursing Team.
5. Use a range of techniques to set and monitor standards of clinical practice, audit, research and teaching to continually improve standards of care and patient experience.
6. To support the development and implementation of audit, quality and risk management initiatives.
7. To teach and act as a facilitator/ mentor /assessor / preceptor to nursing students, junior registered and unregistered staff, volunteers and work experience candidates, as well as participating in clinical supervision programmes as appropriate.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service.  We think working here is pretty rewarding.  You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything.  With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible.  Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk