Job Overview
The Neonatal Unit at Frimley Park is a Level 2 Neonatal Unit made up of 2 Intensive Care, 6 High Dependency and 8 Special Care cots. The unit cares of babies over 27 weeks gestation and stabilises any baby under that gestation, to be transferred to a tertiary hospital/NICU.
Our team aspires to provide high quality and evidenced based clinical, developmental and family integrated care in order to ensure the best outcomes for our babies and their families.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experience nurse who is passionate and enthusiastic about neonatal care to join our education team.
Main duties of the job
This exciting opportunity for a Neonatal Practice Development Nurse on the Neonatal Unit, will allow the applicant to facilitate learning and development of pre and post registration staff, developing student nurses, nursing associates, newly registered staff on preceptorship, and staff working through the QIS course. You will be working in collaboration with the Paediatric and Neonatal Education team on to facilitate a high quality learning environment for our students, newly registered staff on preceptorship, and learners on QIS course, delivering education specific to neonates within Frimley Health.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registrant
- Qualified in speciality
- Practice assessor or equivalent
- Up to date with mandatory training
Desirable criteria
- Registered children's nurse
Experience
Essential criteria
- Two years working recently at Band 6
- Recent experience of supervising, assessing and supporting students and learners
- Recent experience of supporting nursing staff in the NNU
- Recent experience as a nurse in charge within NNU
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience of change management
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of preregistration education
- Ability to support staff working within NNU
- Excellent time management skills
- Completion of nurse in charge competency
- Highly motivated with a positive attitude
- Ability to deal effectively with a wide range of people
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the NHS
- Presentation skills
- Facilitating simulation
Special
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between sites
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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