
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
Job Summary
Ensure the provision of a high standard of family-centred evidence-based nursing and medical care using advanced clinical skills from pre-admission to discharge of babies on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the Transitional Care Unit (TC), using patient assessment skills and making and delivering plans for care and treatment daily.
Support the midwifery team to deliver care to babies across the inpatient maternity services where assessment and care planning may be required. This post sits within the junior doctor tier of the medical roster.
Ensure the NICU Multi-disciplinary Team are involved in the systems that develop local and network policies, guidelines, action plans and benchmarks; developing the Neonatal Service within the Neonatal Network and Women and Children’s Division.
Ensure the Neonatal Network and Trust nursing strategy are implemented within the Neonatal Unit, providing evidence of integration into working practice with audit and advising the Divisional Leadership Team of service developments that can contribute towards the business plan.
Support the Practice Development Nurse to ensure neonatal staff are supported educationally to deliver family-centred, clinically effective care during the baby’s journey through the Neonatal Pathway.
Our Trust Values of Kindness, Wellness, Fairness guides appropriate behaviours of all colleagues and enable us all to be accountable for our actions.
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to undertake advanced neonatal nurse practitioner training on appointment to this post to ensure you are able to:Promote a high standard of advanced specialist nursing and medical care by initiating and co-ordinating the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of the holistic needs of babies, parents/carers and families through evidence based clinical practice following agreed policies, procedures and guidelines.Respond to calls from maternity services on the request of a midwife to assess the condition of a baby and provide specialist advice.
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