Job summary
UHB Neonatal Service: Where a passion and career come together!
Are you a highly skilled Neonatal Nurse who is passionate about providing leaderships skills to an MDT to enable excellent clinical care to all babies and their families?
Do you have extensive experience working within the Neonatal ITU/HDU/SCBU environment, skills include coordinating shifts, utilising resources and working collaboratively with a team of professionals?
If so, then the Band 7 Senior Ward Sister post at UHB might be the perfect job for you!
Our large Neonatal service is based across two hospitals: Heartlands houses our level 3 unit and is a specialist cooling centre, which has 32 cots, we have a Transitional care unit located within Post Natal ward.
Good Hope is a level 1 unit with 12 SCBU cots.
We also have a Neonatal Community Outreach Team that provide care enabling early discharge and promotes ficare.
We work closely with Maternity across both sites to manage flow and capacity within the service.
As a Senior Ward Sister at UHB you will work alongside our friendly, dynamic, talented team of professionals to deliver safe, compassionate care to our local community. The post holder will be a professional role model with high standards to promote excellent care, culture and civility with our service.
This post will be from Mon-Fri and you may be required to work across both our sites.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Ward Sister you will be a positive role model and be responsible for the safe management and operational day to day functioning of the Neonatal service.
To provide a clear focus for leadership and to be responsible for ensuring the provision of a high standard of support for staff wellbeing to enable them to thrive at work.
You will coordinate the team, appropriately allocating shifts to staff on allocate and providing expert guidance and supervision to the nursing workforce.
You must have excellent communication skills which enable you to liaise effectively with families and colleagues. You will need to solve problems using critical thinking skills, manage capacity and flow and escalating concerns where appropriate.
Respond to FFT patient feedback or concerns raised in a timely professional manner and support colleagues to resolve challenging situations.
Act as a change agent, promote evidence-based practice and continually work to improve the quality of services.
Support the provision of a learning environment for all staff and visiting learners.
Strive to provide a positive patient experience in a safe environment and actively promote family integrated care that respects and maintains dignity and human rights.
Identify and report safeguarding concerns following UHB procedures and ensuring accurate records are maintained.
You will work collaboratively with the MDT to ensure the smooth running of the Neonatal unit and you will report directly to the Neonatal Matron.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Registered Nurse/ Midwife on NMC register
- *Neonatal Qualification in Specialty
- *NLS
Desirable
- *Health care management / Leadership Qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Professional Portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
- *Substantial relevant and recent clinical experience within a Neonatal care setting working as a deputy Manager Band 6 position including the supervision and education of junior staff/ students .
- *Can demonstrate understanding / experience / in practice based supervision / assessment as detailed in the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for student supervision and assessment
- *Demonstrable current, recent experience of team leadership and management within the healthcare setting.
- *Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with the clinical service.
- *Evidence of effective multi-professional working.
- *Experience of being a mentor
- *Demonstration of a significant contribution to innovative practice or change management
- *Experience in interviewing and selection of staff
- *Experience in learning from incidents /complaints and supporting changes in practice
- *Demonstrate an ability, experience, passion in the following areas. (E )
- oLeadership
- oTeam building
- oManaging Resources
- oTime management
- oRole modelling
- oChange management/ clinical developments
- oClinical governance
- oAudit and research
- oWorkforce planning / management
- oNHS policy and political awareness
- oKnowledge of clinical governance
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Demonstrates the key strengths and motivators for relating to others.
- *Competence in expanded clinical practice associated with the critical care role.
- *Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- *I.T skills
- *Proven ability to analyse data and identify data trends
- *Able to effectively present information to groups /health care professionals.
- *Ability to work under pressure across competing demands /properties.
- *Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- *Approachable and friendly
- *Supportive
- *Flexible
- *Well organised
- *Good communicator
- *Ability to delegate and supervise
- *Willingness to work core shift patterns for the area Monday to Friday with occasional out of hours /weekend working in extenuating circumstances.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Registered Nurse/ Midwife on NMC register
- *Neonatal Qualification in Specialty
- *NLS
Desirable
- *Health care management / Leadership Qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Professional Portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
- *Substantial relevant and recent clinical experience within a Neonatal care setting working as a deputy Manager Band 6 position including the supervision and education of junior staff/ students .
- *Can demonstrate understanding / experience / in practice based supervision / assessment as detailed in the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for student supervision and assessment
- *Demonstrable current, recent experience of team leadership and management within the healthcare setting.
- *Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with the clinical service.
- *Evidence of effective multi-professional working.
- *Experience of being a mentor
- *Demonstration of a significant contribution to innovative practice or change management
- *Experience in interviewing and selection of staff
- *Experience in learning from incidents /complaints and supporting changes in practice
- *Demonstrate an ability, experience, passion in the following areas. (E )
- oLeadership
- oTeam building
- oManaging Resources
- oTime management
- oRole modelling
- oChange management/ clinical developments
- oClinical governance
- oAudit and research
- oWorkforce planning / management
- oNHS policy and political awareness
- oKnowledge of clinical governance
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Demonstrates the key strengths and motivators for relating to others.
- *Competence in expanded clinical practice associated with the critical care role.
- *Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- *I.T skills
- *Proven ability to analyse data and identify data trends
- *Able to effectively present information to groups /health care professionals.
- *Ability to work under pressure across competing demands /properties.
- *Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- *Approachable and friendly
- *Supportive
- *Flexible
- *Well organised
- *Good communicator
- *Ability to delegate and supervise
- *Willingness to work core shift patterns for the area Monday to Friday with occasional out of hours /weekend working in extenuating circumstances.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
