Neonatal Preceptorship and Development Nurse

The role offers you opportunity to develop your teaching and mentorship knowledge and skills in the clinical and classroom setting, supporting the team to induct newly qualified nurses, Nursing associates, nursing and midwifery students those returning to work following a break and those taking on a new role.

Working as part of our practice development team you will deliver and facilitate study days, develop learning packages, implement change in clinical practice and gain audit experience and support junior members of the team to learn these skills and align our services with the National Preceptorship framework.

You will deputise for the Practice Development Nurse, where needed, attending Trust and Service meetings, assisting in the preparation of data to evidence staff training and development with non-clinical time to support these activities. You will continue to develop team management skills within a regional medical and surgical neonatal service..

The Neonatal Team at NUH are looking for Enthusiastic, Passionate and Creative Preceptorship / Development Nurses.

This exciting new role is coming to the Neonatal service as part of the growth and expansion planned within the Maternity and Neonatal Redesign.

The role is to establish support, reflection and clinical guidance for professional development. It will support the already well established Neonatal Foundation programme with a focus on easing the transition of newly appointed staff into professional practice or a new role by developing knowledge and skills in a supportive environment and embedding the preceptorship framework within the neonatal service. As part of the development team you will be working alongside clinical educators, development nurses and with leadership from the Practice Development Nurse and Matron.

The exciting Maternity and Neonatal Redesign programme is a scheme to expand our neonatal unit at the QMC, providing an additional 21 cots and taking the total to 38 and will enable QMC to provide enough cot days to enable it to retain its status as a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Our neonatal facility at the City Hospital will then become a 'Local Neonatal Unit', able to support babies in intensive care for up to 48 hours.

We have 3 posts available and the recruitment will be a phased approach with the recruitment of one post in March, one in June and the remaining post to be recruited in August 2023., With a dedicated Institute of Nursing and Midwifery Care Excellence, continued professional education and career development opportunities include: a well-established preceptorship programme, a seven day acute care skills foundation course, bespoke rotational programmes, resilience-focused clinical supervision, an international OSCE programme and clinical academic careers.

Access to the biggest established Shared Governance programme in the UK, with 85 staff councils at ward level and growing, giving our workforce a voice and supporting a culture of innovation.

Our nursing teams are leading Patient Experience Network National Award winning initiatives (PENNA 2018) and have opportunities to work on improvement initiatives that are co-produced with those who use our services.