NursingNetUK

Job overview

To provide the highest standard of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of individualised patient care to babies receiving transitional care on the postnatal ward.

To promote a friendly and supportive atmosphere for parents and relatives in which they can learn to care for their babies.

To utilise a variety of strategies to communicate effectively: with the babies’ family/carers, the multidisciplinary team, other departments within the Trust and pertinent agencies outside the organisation.

The post holder will play a key role in developing the transitional care unit based on the postnatal ward.

This will involve working within a team of neonatal staff, Band 7 and Band 5, coordinating and communicating with the midwifery team. 

Main duties of the job

·       Oral medication administration.

·       Performing observations on babies as required.

·       Taking of routine bloods and gases as required.

·       Supporting with lumbar punctures.

·       Breastfeeding support.

·       Liaising with Midwifery Team regarding discharges.

·       Liaising with NNU regarding transfers of babies either to/from the unit or postnatal ward.

·       Completing BadgerNet summaries.

• To coordinate the care of babies requiring transitional care on the postnatal ward.
• Ensure that parents are updated on their baby’s progress, being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity, and privacy, and always ensure a friendly environment.
• To be an advocate for the infant and to promote good liaisons and effective communication with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To ensure appropriate documentation of care is in accordance with NMC guidelines.

Working for our organisation

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.