Role Summary
The overriding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement. To work as the Lead Nurse, to lead and work alongside the ward leaders in providing high standards of holistic transitional care, ensuring that it is evidence based and compliant with best practice recommendations for transitional care services (TC).
The Neonatal Transitional Care Lead plays a pivotal role in delivering and leading high-quality, safe, and compassionate care for newborns who require additional support at birth but do not need admission to a neonatal unit. This includes babies with needs such as temperature regulation, feeding support, treatment for jaundice or hypoglycaemia, or those exposed to maternal substance use. The post-holder will lead the development and coordination of the transitional care service, working closely with maternity, neonatal, and community teams to ensure seamless, family-centred care that keeps mothers and babies together wherever clinically appropriate.
Responsibilities
* To inspire a shared sense of purpose
* Provide clinical leadership
* Support the provision of the service and service delivery
* Infant feeding support
* Role related risk management
* Involvement in training and education
* Multidisciplinary liaison
* Resource/management planning
* Responsibility for patient care
* Policy and service development and implementation
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