Neonatal Community Outreach Sister / Charge Nurse

We offer a service with dedicated and professional team members to deliver safe and effective care to our babies and their families within their own home in the community.

Our service offers home phototherapy, home oxygen, home nasogastric feeding and care for pre term infants, as well as other deliveries of care.

We meet our families prior to discharge to ensure they feel confident and safe, allowing them to ask for support and advice and build a rapport with them all whilst education them with the care their baby requires., We support the facilitation of early discharge of well preterm babies and the home nursing of babies requiring specialist nursing intervention e.g. special feeding requirements, home oxygen, congenital abnormalities.Carry out blood sampling in the patient's home, thus preventing unnecessary return visits to the hospital.

We support families with prescription changes or drugs used on community, dependent on blood test results and organising TTO's for drugs difficult to access for community pharmacies. Offer advice to parents on non prescription/over the counter medicines.

We advise on changes in nutritional needs of the baby and weaning.We work in conjunction with other members of the multi disciplinary team and initiate transfer of care to other services e.g. HV/CDC/social services/CCNT/AHP

We empower and educate families to learn new skills and become competent caring for their baby at home, ensuring they are confident and always supported by our team

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
1. Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live