Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual who aspires to take on a senior clinical leadership role, as Neonatal Nurse Consultant and join an established and supportive clinical team within the Neonatal Unit at UHS.
The successful candidate will work with the Senior Leadership Team, multi-professional team, commissioners, external partners, and families to co-create maternity pathways and services in accordance with the NHS Long Term plan and neonatal transformational work streams. A key component of the nurse consultant role is to provide expert and autonomous care to babies and families requiring assessment, treatment, management, and clinical interventions in the department. The post holder will have a significant role in developing and influencing strategies and policies to ensure excellence and high-quality care for neonatal patients and their families across the Trust.
Key working relations include:
- Multidisciplinary team coordinating neonatal service provision in particular:
- Senior nursing team
- Medical workforce, including both juniors and consultants
- Neonatal, Maternity, and paediatric practice educators.
- Families and caregivers on the neonatal unit.
Main duties of the job
YOUR MAIN DUTIES
You can read an overview of the main duties of the role in the section below: Job Description and Main Responsibilities.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents attached.
About us
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to. UHS is rated 'Good' by the CQC and in the latest national NHS Staff Survey, we were in the top 10 acute trusts for staff engagement and for staff recommending the hospital as a place to work or receive care.
At UHS we are committed to providing a flexible working environment. We believe that it benefits everyone if we achieve a positive work-life balance. Whether you are balancing family, study or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
We're proud to have been voted in the Top Five acute Trusts for our commitment to supporting our staff to achieve work-life balance.
UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme and life insurance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES What youll do
- Role model highly developed communication skills to facilitate quality improvement across all aspects of the service.
- To utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based knowledge in the management of pathways with highly complex presentations and to be clinically competent to utilise expert skills and knowledge in a variety of clinical settings.
- Promote the translation of evidence based/research findings and best practice guidance into practice; developing, establishing and implementing guidelines and nurse led initiatives, particularly where precedents do not exist.
- Have a highly visible clinical profile, providing both advisory and clinical input into care, spending 50% of time in clinical practice including undertaking consultations in clinic to support patient / family choice.
- Apply advanced theoretical, evidence based and practical knowledge to the clinical care of neonates whilst delivering and shaping nurse led services.
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to optimise clearly defined outcomes that reflect high quality service. Benchmark and align outcome indicators with national top performers
- To be an integral part of the senior leadership team providing operational support to the service as required including an on-call commitment out of hours.
What were looking for This role requires an aspiring or current Neonatal Nurse Consultant with demonstrable experience in:
- Clinical leadership and staff development
- Multi-professional working within maternity and the Trust
- Education and research
- Consultancy
- Quality Improvement
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Interviews will be held on Thursday, 13 July 2023
Should you have any queries, please use the contact details below to get in touch.
Job description
Job responsibilities
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES What youll do
- Role model highly developed communication skills to facilitate quality improvement across all aspects of the service.
- To utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based knowledge in the management of pathways with highly complex presentations and to be clinically competent to utilise expert skills and knowledge in a variety of clinical settings.
- Promote the translation of evidence based/research findings and best practice guidance into practice; developing, establishing and implementing guidelines and nurse led initiatives, particularly where precedents do not exist.
- Have a highly visible clinical profile, providing both advisory and clinical input into care, spending 50% of time in clinical practice including undertaking consultations in clinic to support patient / family choice.
- Apply advanced theoretical, evidence based and practical knowledge to the clinical care of neonates whilst delivering and shaping nurse led services.
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to optimise clearly defined outcomes that reflect high quality service. Benchmark and align outcome indicators with national top performers
- To be an integral part of the senior leadership team providing operational support to the service as required including an on-call commitment out of hours.
What were looking for This role requires an aspiring or current Neonatal Nurse Consultant with demonstrable experience in:
- Clinical leadership and staff development
- Multi-professional working within maternity and the Trust
- Education and research
- Consultancy
- Quality Improvement
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Interviews will be held on Thursday, 13 July 2023
Should you have any queries, please use the contact details below to get in touch.
Person Specification
Skills and competencies
Essential
- General IT skills
- Leadership
- Time management
- Organisational skills
- Communication
- Change management
- Strategic planning
- Working under pressure
- Teamwork
- Problem solving
- Multitasking
- Analytical thinking
- Negotiation skills
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Essential
- Qualified Nurse educated to master's level or equivalent qualification
- Registered nurse on relevant part of the NMC register
- Leadership/management qualification or equivalent experience
- Extensive experience of working at a specialist or advanced level of practice within Neonatal services
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a wide range of approaches to the management of patients, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning
- Experience in managing complex relationships and influencing difficult areas of change
- Previous experience of formal presentations to multi-professional group
- Ability to work at strategic and clinical levels simultaneously
- Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex information in differing circumstances and develop plans for complex care where there is no precedent
Desirable
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Evidence of publications, conference presentations
- Experience of working with academic institutions ensuring the development of research programmes within the workplace
- Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at postgraduate and Masters level
Trust Values
Essential
- Patients First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
Person Specification
Skills and competencies
Essential
- General IT skills
- Leadership
- Time management
- Organisational skills
- Communication
- Change management
- Strategic planning
- Working under pressure
- Teamwork
- Problem solving
- Multitasking
- Analytical thinking
- Negotiation skills
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Essential
- Qualified Nurse educated to master's level or equivalent qualification
- Registered nurse on relevant part of the NMC register
- Leadership/management qualification or equivalent experience
- Extensive experience of working at a specialist or advanced level of practice within Neonatal services
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a wide range of approaches to the management of patients, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning
- Experience in managing complex relationships and influencing difficult areas of change
- Previous experience of formal presentations to multi-professional group
- Ability to work at strategic and clinical levels simultaneously
- Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex information in differing circumstances and develop plans for complex care where there is no precedent
Desirable
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Evidence of publications, conference presentations
- Experience of working with academic institutions ensuring the development of research programmes within the workplace
- Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at postgraduate and Masters level
Trust Values
Essential
- Patients First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
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).
