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Job overview

Are you an enthusiastic and dynamic neonatal nurse? Do you strive to provide excellent nursing care? Are you looking to progress your career? Then come and join our newly expanded Neonatal community outreach team.

Due to retirement the opportunity has arisen for the redevelopment of this team, therefore we a looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Neonatal outreach team and be part of its development and expansion of the service.

Candidates must have current experience of caring for neonates in a hospital or community environment and must be QIS trained in speciality. These posts offer a fantastic opportunity to utilise and develop your knowledge and skills in caring for babies in the home setting.

To be able to cover a 6-day service, there will be several working patterns and hours available. For the right individual there may the opportunity for a hybrid role as a Neonatal sister and Neonatal outreach nurse.

Main duties of the job

Band 6 neonatal nurses based at WHH are required to promote safe, early discharge of babies from the neonatal unit, transitional care and the postnatal ward. Families will be supported by providing ongoing care needs in the home environment, for example , management of oxygen in the home environment, low birth weight infants, support with feeding etc.

We take great pride in delivering high standards of care to our local neonatal population and are excited to create a robust service to support vulnerable neonates on discharge from the neonatal service.

These posts will support in planning the care and transition from the 
neonatal unit, transitional care and paediatrics through a structured discharge process, promoting safe early discharge from hospital to home. You will liaise with other members of the multidisciplinary 
team and support parents in providing high quality care in the home environment.

Candidates will be expected to undertake a regular clinical shift on the Neonatal unit.

Working for our organisation

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff.  We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system.  Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.