Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

We are looking for a dynamic, innovative and enthusiastic individual to join our Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) team here at Northumbria Healthcare. Our ANNPs demonstrate excellence in providing high quality, compassionate and holistic care for newborns in our level 1 Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU), delivery-suite and postnatal wards.
For over twenty years our existing ANNPs have had clinical responsibility and leadership of the neonatal unit with support from the Consultant Paediatricians.
Working on a nurse led unit, the ANNP is responsible for maintaining the critically ill baby without onsite medical support at times and attending high-risk deliveries for the resuscitation, stabilization and safe transfer of newborn infants.
The post holder will need to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which engages, enables and empowers others as well as facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received, The Special Care Baby Unit is based at The Northumbria Hospital and is a level one neonatal unit, comprising of 12 special care cots. The team provide high dependency care and stabilise infants requiring intensive care, prior to transfer.
Successful candidates will be appointed a Clinical Supervisor, who along with the ANNP team, will support them through a supernumerary programme. Following completion of this they will join a medical rota covering SCBU, Transitional Care, Post-natal Wards, Delivery Suite, Birthing Centre and supports NNeTS.
The post holder will receive weekly ring-fenced non-clinical hours (20% of their weekly contracted hours) to enable them to perform and demonstrate competence across all 4 pillars of advanced practice,
Overall, it is anticipated that the person joining the team will make a significant contribution to what is already a well-integrated team, whilst providing outstanding, high-quality neonatal care., We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

NHS AfC: Band 8a
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
+ Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
+ Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
+ A range of flexible working opportunities
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
+ Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
+ On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
+ Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.