Band 6 Nurse / Deputy Sister

Are you an enthusiastic nurse looking for a new opportunity in neonatal care? Would you like to advance your career by working for and learn from the Thames Valley lead neonatal unit?,

• To provide clinical leadership ensuring a high standard of evidence based individualised nursing and family integrated care for babies & their families in co-operation with colleagues and in accordance with Newborn Care Unit guidelines.
• To provide education & support to families
• To partake in the supervision & preceptorship/mentorship of pre/post registration students & junior staff
• To adhere to the NMC Code 2015
  
  We are excited to announce that the Newborn Care Unit at The John Radcliffe has new opportunities for Band 6 Nurses to join our Team #OneTeamOneOUH. We are committed to offer all the successful candidates the opportunity to gain valuable training so that they can not only advance their careers but join a team that offers the very best in neonatal care.
Our Newborn Care Unit is a centre of excellence in neonatal care. We provide level 3 care for extremely preterm infants, critically unwell infants & infants requiring a number of specialities, including surgery, neurology, cardiology and ophthalmology. The Newborn Care Unit currently has 16 intensive care cots, 18 high dependency cots and 19 low dependency cots. We are the base for the neonatal transport team - SONeT - covering the Thames Valley area. We have an enthusiastic education team providing support to both nursing staff and pre/post registration students. We run regular in-house study days and team days. We accept applications from children's nurses, adult nurses and midwives. Critical care experience is desirable, but not essential., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.