Staff Nurse Neonatal/Transitional Care Unit

Job summary

Do you believe that Keeping mothers and babies together should be the cornerstone of newborn care?........If so this is the role for you!

It is an exciting time for Neonatal services at St Helier's as we expand to support our Maternity colleagues to deliver exceptional Neonatal Transitional Care (NTC). The post holder will be part of Neonatal nursing team and work flexibly across the Neonatal unit and Postnatal ward, dependant on service need.

The successful post holder will work alongside families, supporting and teaching parents to care for their newborn or premature babies in preparation for discharge home. The post holder will be expected to work independently, under the supervision of the neonatal transitional care lead. With a team of bands 4's already in place further expansion of the service will see the addition of a band 5 neonatal nurse on every shift. This will enable a the service to provide a gold standard NTC service, offering NGT feeding at the bedspace next to the resident parent

Please note this role is a shift worker position, as such you would be expected to work a variety of long days, nights, weekends and bank holidays. We aim to recruit staff to a start date of 1/4/25, However this data could be flexible for the right candidate. For further information email Manju NTC Lead, details as below.

Main duties of the job

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 neonate's family/carers, the multidisciplinary team, other departments within the Trust and pertinent agencies outside the organisation. Support the nursing team in proving advices on breastfeeding, developmental care, family integrated care and parent education.

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and issupported by over 500 volunteers.