Job Summary
Surgery, Women and Children's Neonatal Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse
Permanent - 30 hours per week.

Are you a Qualified in Specialty (QIS) neonatal nurse with a passion for delivering outstanding care to our smallest patients and their families? Are you ready to take the next step in your career and embrace a leadership role within a supportive and forward-thinking team?

We are looking for a highly motivated and compassionate Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse to join our dedicated neonatal unit at Russell's Hall Hospital. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead by example, support junior staff, and contribute to the continuous development of neonatal services.

What we're looking for:

• QIS qualification (essential)
• Proven experience in neonatal intensive, high dependency, and special care
• Strong leadership and decision-making skills

We warmly welcome informal visits to meet the team, explore the unit, and see what makes our neonatal service so special.

Main duties of the job

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care for babies and their families, ensuring effective liaison with other agencies as appropriate.
• To contribute to the development of multidisciplinary electronic patient record database, participating in the review of current documentation.
• To work as a senior member of the Neonatal Team, providing support and leadership to all staff as appropriate.
• To be responsible for the delivery of high standards of effective patient care, ensuring individual programmes of care are assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated.
• To promote and maintain effective communication systems both within and outside the Trust and create an environment that encourages open communication and Trust.
• To act as a professional role model, through commitment to the integration into practice of Trust policies and procedures.
• To ensure that all nursing and midwifery practice is in accordance with NMC Code of Conduct
• Be involved in establishing Trust/Network agreed standards of care by which overall performances can be measured and evaluated, keeping up to date with clinical governance activities.

About us
At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of "excellent health care, improved health for all". We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.

We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer and where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds.

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust recognises the values and transferable skills that the Armed Forces community bring and recognise their compatibility with NHS roles.

We are committed to home life balance through flexible working and making reasonable adjustments where possible.

Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential:

• RN/RSCN/RNC/RM
• Recognised post-graduate qualification in Neonatal Nursing (QIS)

Desirable:

• Evidence of undertaking a recognised course of study in teaching and assessing

Communication Skills
Essential:

• Effective communication skills (verbal, written, and electronic)
• Exemplary personal and professional standards of conduct and behaviour

Teaching and Knowledge
Essential:

• Recent or current neonatal care experience
• Neonatal Life Support
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Effective leadership and clinical decision-making skills
• Knowledge of effective people management
• Computer literate

Desirable:

• Knowledge of clinical audit and incident management

Experience
Essential:

• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Keen to develop own knowledge and skills
• Commitment to evidence-based practice

Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential:

• Ability to make sound clinical decisions and demonstrate leadership

Planning Skills
Essential:

• Flexible to meet the demands of the role
• Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team

Desirable:

• Evidence of projects/research undertaken

Management Skills
Essential:

• Knowledge of effective people management
• Ensure the right staff and resources are available to deliver safe, effective patient care.

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.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.