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Job overview

Are you considering a new leadership challenge in your career in Neonatal care? 

We are offering both band 6 and developmental band 6 posts, full and part time hours are available. Both posts will be supported by our PD team and seniors' nurses on the ward to ensuring that you have bespoke orientation programme supporting your career progression on the unit.  The developmental band 6 role would be ideal for a band 5 with the qualified in speciality to develop their skills and progress into the band 6 position. You will be supported via a bespoke developmental plan and receive input to complete set competencies over a six month period.  

There will be the opportunity to specialise in PREM 7 and saving babies lives project for one of these posts. 

We would welcome your application for this an exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

Our newly expanded and refurbished Level 2 Neonatal Unit within the Surrey, Sussex and Kent Neonatal Network  has a total of 21 cots. We provide care for over 450 babies per year in our intensive, high dependency and special care nurseries alongside a busy Transitional Care area and a well-established Neonatal Outreach service.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our unit which prides itself on providing excellence in care with a priority of building a partnership with the family. With our values of ‘One Team, Safety and Quality, Compassion, Dignity and Respect’ you will play a leading role in helping to shape our service by delivering comprehensive and high quality clinical care in partnership with the multidisciplinary team.

You will need to be qualified in specialty and consolidated that learning for a minimum of one year in an acute neonatal setting.  As well as progressing and maintaining your nursing skills, there will be opportunities to develop your management skills, working closely with senior staff as well as supporting junior members of the team and students.

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
• We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.