Staff Nurse Neonatal

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Prescot, Knowsley

Staff Nurse Neonatal

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Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Prescot, Knowsley

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 11 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 3bb87fd96d0e4c33b01f2fa6049ad465

Full Job Description

  • Provides and receives complex information, communicating sensitively and confidentiallyinformation relating to patients/clients (for example, care plan discussions with patients).
  • Communicates in a compassionate and empathetic manner, using persuasion and Reassurance.
  • Ability to recognise barriers to communication, and ability to modify communication style as and when required.
  • Ability to effectively communicate whilst providing training to students.
  • Demonstrate effective communications skills with the wider MDT team.
  • Maintain appropriate levels of training for clinical skills as needed within scope of practice.
  • To maintain safe custody of drugs, ensuring that checking, witnessing and administration procedures are compatible with statutory and trust requirements.
  • In the absence of Sister/Charge Nurse effectively respond to complaints/concerns and escalate as required.
  • To ensure clinical incident/near misses are managed and reported and escalated in a timely manner.
  • To be part of the multidisciplinary team decision making, acting when required as the patients advocate in order to support the patient's pathway.

    Registered Nurses (child or adult) or Registered Midwives who hold a qualification in speciality (neonatal intensive care course 405 or equivalent)
  • Registered Nurses or Midwives with post registration experience working within an acute neonatal setting who are keen to develop and complete the Neonatal Induction Programme and Qualification in Speciality

    Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our services: Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. Achievements:
  • Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
  • Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
  • National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme