Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Job Summary
Coombe Wood provides specialist perinatal inpatient and community services for mothers and their babies and has done so for over 50 years. The team is made up of psychiatrists, nurses, nursery nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, art psychotherapist, family therapist, specialist midwife, specialist health visitor and support staff. We accept women in the third trimester of their pregnancy and mother with babies up to 12 months old. The post holder will work in the mother and baby unit and with opportunities in the future to work across the community perinatal teams. The ideal candidates will be a qualified nursery who has experience of working with children under 1 and their parents. The post holder should have a passion to deliver excellent child centred care and a desire to develop their skills in this specialist service. They will be able to demonstrate good interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills. A commitment to working within a multi-professional team is essential to the role. There are excellent opportunities and support available for you to develop both personally and professionally. Training on all aspects of maternal mental health, parent infant interaction, baby care & development is provided on site and through various specialist perinatal mental health organisations. Hence experience in perinatal mental health is not a prerequisite but a strong interest and motivation to learn on the job is required.
Main duties of the job
Band 4 nursery nurses work closely with the people who use our services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 4 nursery nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
- keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound nursery nurse assessment skills
- ensuring the best possible outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures
- ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process
We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Band 4 nursery nurses work as part of a team and you will contribute to the success of the team by drawing support from more experienced nurses and other health professionals but also by supervising other staff and student nurses to ensure they are working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.
About us
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 4 Nursery Nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family and carers and also other staff members.
As a Band 4 Nursery Nurse we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
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