Job summary
UHB Neonatal Service: Where a passion and career come together! Our established team are seeking Neonatal Nurses with a Critical Care qualification to undertake the role of Special Care Coordinator. The service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We are recruiting to x2: 37.5 hour and a 17.5 hour post (predominately night shifts) permanent post, and a 23 hour fixed term post to cover day shifts. Shifts may differ depending on service needs. At UHB, we provide neonatal care to over 10,000 babies across the region. Heartlands Hospital (Level 3) has 12 Critical Care and 16 Special Care cots, a Transitional Care Unit and Community Outreach Team. Good Hope Hospital (Level 1) has 16 Special Care cots and stabilises infants prior to transfer. As a Band 6 Special Care Coordinator, you will focus on quality, ensuring excellent care for babies and families. You will support and develop staff, role model best practice, and lead the multidisciplinary team on shift while ensuring adherence to Trust policies. You should be supportive, calm and possess exceptional communication skills. You must be a positive role model and lead by example ensuring adherence to trust and local policies. You must be able to coordinate and organise care provisions and lead the diverse multi-professional team on shift. You will not have a patient allocation but will provide clinical support as required and maintain your critical care skills. These posts are based at Heartlands Hospital.

Main duties of the job

• Coordinate care, capacity & flow across the service collaborating with the nurse in charge of the Neonatal unit.
• Ensure high quality care is delivered in line with policies & procedures. Maintain safe practice to protect vulnerable babies and families, adhering to Infection Control, Medicines Management and Infant Feeding standards
• Demonstrate positive role modelling, provide support, teaching and provision of pastoral care to enable staff to develop and perform within their scope of practice. Deliver constructive feedback and work with Educators to promote the development of knowledge, skills and confidence.
• Communicate effectively with all teams and multi-disciplinary members. Attend huddles, ward rounds, team meetings to understand patient case load, clinical issues and convey messages to the team.
• Utilise critical thinking skills to solve problems and escalate concerns appropriately in a timely manner to managers and senior leaders using the appropriate channels
• Provide supervision during clinical ward round to ensure key information is transferred and required care is planned. Ensure discharge planning and safeguarding concerns are managed appropriately and in the best interests of the patient and family.
• Implement family integrated care & developmental care. Communicating with families to ensure they are informed and involved, seek feedback to aid positive learning.
• Develop self to enhance their professional knowledge, skills and leadership ability

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.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Registered Child Branch Nurse, Adult Nurse or Midwife on the NMC register
• Qualification in speciality. Neonatal Critical Care/ Intensive Care

Desirable

• Health care management / leadership qualification

Experience

• Substantial post registration experience working in a Neonatal critical care environment delivering family integrated care and supervising / mentoring junior staff
• Evidence of professional /clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical and or managerial training and CPD
• Can demonstrate understanding / experience / willingness to be a practice based supervisor / assessor as detailed in the Nursing & Midwifery Council ( NMC ) standards for student supervision and assessment
• Professional portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
• Relevant and recent clinical experience within the speciality /acute care setting, including the supervision /education of junior staff
• Experience of mentoring undergraduate students
• Evidence of ability to lead /coordinate a shift /area of department
• Experience in learning from incidents /complaints and supporting changes in practice.
• Demonstrable ability, experience, passion in the following: Effective Communication, Leadership, Team Building, Managing resources, Time management, Role modelling, Change management / clinical developments, Clinical governance, Audit and research, Workforce planning / management, NHS policy and political awareness

Additional Criteria

• Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Approachable and friendly
• Supportive
• Flexible
• Well organised
• Effective communicator
• Sound clinical reasoning and decision making
• Ability to perform in complex and challenging situations
• Ability to inspire and lead a team
• Ability to work flexible shift pattern, where required to include rotation to day /night duty and unsocial hours according to service need

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.