Job summary
Employer heading
Staff Nurse
Band 5
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing care needs of a group of special care infants and their families without direct supervision.
He/she will provide a high standard of direct nursing care.
Supervision and support of junior and unqualified members of staff, assisting with their on-going development at all times.
The post holder will be an effective communicator, liaising closely with all service users in order to benefit the infants well-being
This is a development post, designed to provide an individual pathway to qualified Neonatal Nurse status
Main duties of the job
To provide full care to Special Care infants and their family
To participate in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care provided to individual infants and their families.
To ensure that parents/carers achieve confidence with assistance and support to enable them to care for their baby in preparation for discharge.
To safely administer prescribed medication and to monitor their effects
Respond to any adverse effects or deterioration in the baby's condition with appropriate degree of urgency and support the team when these situations occur
Work within a MDT
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential criteria
- RN/RSCN/RM
- Commitment to neonatal nursing. Ability to undertake specialist modules
- Good written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
Desirable criteria
- Working in the NHS. Knowledge of the function of a Neonatal Unit and recognition of problems areising from working in an intensivr,hot and high stress environment
- Computer skills
- Experience of working with various different background/cultures. Experience of working with parents sharing their babys care
Essential and Desirable
Essential criteria
- Commitment to Neonatal Nursing
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate an interest in self development
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ann Jones
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 869 2900
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