Job overview
As the Neonatal Matron you must take overall responsibility in the management and leadership of the Neonatal Department. As a registered, accountable and autonomous nurse you must act in the best interests of your patients at all times and take personal responsibility for your actions and decisions. You will be responsible for patient assessment, diagnosis, planning of care, giving and supervising safe and compassionate care, and evaluating the effectiveness of care in the neonatal unit.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide expert advice on all matters relating to neonatal care.
2. Work with the lead Band 7 Nurses to ensure a consistent approach to neonatal nursing across all areas of responsibility, through collaborative working and the development of shared procedures and guidelines, supervising the audit of practice development and the implementation of action plans.
3. Work with the Lead Nurse to ensure that continuous quality improvement programmes are in place, working collaboratively with the Directorate of Nursing in the delivery clinical benchmarks.
4. Ensure that nursing practices comply with Trust policy, procedures and guidelines.
5. Act as an advocate for critically ill neonates and their families as appropriate; particularly when informed discussion may lead to choices being made concerning treatment options.
6. Collaborate with other health, education and social agencies to facilitate the best outcome for the neonate and their family.
7. Ensure effective discharge planning for all patients within areas of responsibility, through timely planning by multi-disciplinary team members and appropriate use of community services.
8. Work with the Band 7 Infant feeding lead to ensure ongoing compliance to Unicef Baby Friendly standards and support any future development of this service.
9. Provide professional role modelling to lead and inspire the professional development of neonatal care.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have aroundt 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We believe working here is rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro rata) and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities
Person specification
Application form and interview
Essential criteria
10. •NMC registered RSCN/RN/RM.
11. •Relevant post registration neonatal qualifications in speciality (QIS)
12. •Educated to degree level in relevant subject area or equivalent experience.
13. •Recognised leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
14. •Evidence of continuing professional development.
15. •Good understanding and knowledge of National and Local NHS and Neonatal/ Midwifery agenda
16. •Minimum of 3 years at Senior Charge Nurse/Sister level within specialty
17. •Budget management experience.
18. •Experience and knowledge of quality, standard setting, and audit
19. •Experience in managing complaints and quality assurance.
20. •Working knowledge of Clinical Governance and information Governance
21. •Experience of introducing change to clinical environment.
22. •Articulate with highly developed communication skills with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels, including interpersonal skills, liaison and negotiation skills
23. •Report writing skills and experience.
24. •Responsive and flexible attitude and approach.
Desirable criteria
25. •Masters Level qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP).
26. •Recognised teaching/assessing qualification.
We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-
27. Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
28. Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
29. An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
30. Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
31. Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
32. An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
33. Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
34. Cycle to work scheme
35. Uniform provided (where required)
36. On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
37. On site health and fitness club
38. On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
39. Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.