Job summary
- Main area
- Neonatology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 249-6466290
- Employer
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Great Western Hospital
- Town
- Swindon
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/08/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Job overview
Are you an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) looking for a new challenge? We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join our passionate perinatal team whilst we continue to set up our ANNP team. The ANNP service at Great Western Hospital has been enthusiastically embraced and this post will bring with it opportunities to shape the future of the team.
The role of the ANNP is built around the star values of the organisation, as well as the four pillars of advanced practice. At Great Western Hospital Neonatal Unit the ANNP provides advanced skills and knowledge and is supported to work autonomously , in accordance with local guidelines and protocols. They will demonstrate highly developed specialist knowledge and skills in a specialist area of practice within a defined patient group. They will receive and processes complex, sensitive and contentious information, initiating actions required.
Main duties of the job
An Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) with the experience, knowledge, and skills to undertake the role and responsibilities required to support the Tier1 medical rota. The ANNP team is in addition to the medical rota, enabling them to provide specialist knowledge of
clinical care, advice, support, and teaching to the multidisciplinary team.
This is a new ANNP service, being introduced in a staged way over the next 3 years, with the aim of an 24-7 ANNP service. We have designed this service in partnership with ANNP leads from the British Association of Perinatal Medicine, such that the service maps to the new BAPM Advanced Practice Framework.
The new GWH ANNP team have protected time to develop and skills and deliver improvements across the four pillars of advanced practice, whilst being supported by a Lead ANNP to ensure career development. The ANNP team is independent of the tier 1 and 2 rotas, but works closely with all tiers of the medical team. Each of the ANNP team collaborates and supports each other, and supports the training of our new trainee ANNPs. You will also receive ongoing support and mentorship from the neonatal consultant leads, our Head of Midwifery & Neonatal Services, our Director of Midwifery & Neonatal Services. and Lead Matron.
Working for our organisation
We are incredibly proud of our award winning perinatal team, who developed the PERIPrem programme. The Neonatal team at GWH has provided leadership across the region for this project, as well as national leadership in perinatal quality improvement. Numerous opportunities exist for our new ANNP team in areas such as Quality Improvement, outreach, family integrated care, fetal medicine, palliative care/bereavement, education & training (we run 4 NLS courses a year in Swindon) and risk/governance. You will be supported to explore all four pillars of advanced practice and there is rostered non-clinical time to work on areas of interest.
You will work closely with a dedicated team of consultants, nurses, midwives, obstetricians and allied health professionals. You will provide clinical care across the perinatal service, delivering leadership and advanced neonatal nursing practice with autonomy, in accordance with local guidelines and protocols and demonstrate highly developed specialist knowledge.
Our ethos of care is to ensure that babies and their families are at the centre of our services and everything we do. We are looking for candidates who embrace this ethos and can demonstrate responsibility and accountability delivering expert care.
We are thrilled to be recruiting another ANNP into this new service and are excited to recruit an outstanding candidate to help us make this an on-going success.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Take the role and responsibilities of the Specialist Trainee as part of their work schedule, also covering for in-house training sessions as required.
2. Act as a role model in practicing evidence-based nursing care
3. Acknowledgement of clinical risk management within the neonatal unit
4. Works across professional and organisational boundaries
5. Exercise independent judgment in the assessment, diagnosis and initiation of delegated medical roles,
processes and procedures
6. Initiate evidence-based practice, and actively undertake research to enhance clinical practice
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First Level Qualification: BSc RGN, RSCN, RN Child Branch
- ENB 405/400/HEAB 316/317 or equivalent
- A19/BSc Neonatal Studies or equivalent
- MSc Advanced Practice
- Current Registration with NMC
- Non-medical Prescriber
- NLS Provider
- Teaching/Mentorship qualification
Desirable criteria
- NLS Instructor
- ARNI provider
- ARNI Instructor
- GIC Instructor
- Management/Leadership qualification
- Counselling training
- Bereavement training
- Computer Literate (ECDL)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in clinical decision-making
- Evidence of management and leadership
- Practiced at teaching & mentoring
- Portfolio of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Transport experience/competence
- Previous ANNP experience
- Experience of undertaking undertake audit/research
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work within a technical environment
- Understands the principles of family integrated care (FiCare)
- Develop nursing projects and apply findings to practice
- Ability to facilitate change within the clinical area
- Cognisant of research and evidence-based practice in the clinical setting
- Advanced clinical practice skills
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of nursing project implementation
- Evidence of change management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Adele Farrow
- Job title
- Lead ANNP
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07877383737
- Additional information
We are a Level 2 Local Neonatal Unit, with 18 cots providing intensive, high dependency and special care for babies above 27 weeks gestation and are part of the fantastic South West Operational Delivery Network. (SWODN). We have a consultant led delivery suite and co located birth centre caring for 4,000 births per year. Our postnatal ward has a 6 bedded Transitional Care unit, and we work hard to maintain the lowest ATAIN rates in the region.
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and
the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours
to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:
Service We will put our patients first
Teamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrityFor further information about this exciting opportunity, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]
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