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Nursery Nurse- SCBU/Transitional Care/Post Natal
The closing date is 03 April 2026
This is an exciting opportunity for Nursery Nurses to join the team in our brand new purpose built building. The post holder will be Responsible for implementation of effective quality neonatal care to infants requiring Transitional Care and Special Care and post natal ward, under the supervision of the registered nurse/Midwife, following a holistic family centred model of practice
The post holder carries out assigned tasks involving direct care in support of a Registered Nurse to ensure care of babies and children within the unit to promote their health and development and contribute to the effective and efficient day to day running of the unit. To successfully complete nursery nurse competencies to gain neonatal specific knowledge and skills.
Sponsorship is not available for this position
Main duties of the job
Responsibility for individual patient care under the supervision of a trained nurse as allocated by the nurse in charge
Undertake the following procedures/ activities for babies and families requiring Transitional Care/Post-natal and/or special care:
Implement & evaluate the agreed plan of care, review and update plan accordingly
Demonstrate an understanding of, assess, evaluate care in relation to infant hygiene, nutritional care, thermoregulatory care, monitoring
Carry out daily checks and cleaning of specialised equipment
To prepare babies feeds accurately and monitor and record their feeding. This includes the management of Naso/oro gastric tube feeding
Support and assist mothers in cares
Check temperatures and cleanliness milk fridges and freezers
Care for stable infants receiving low flow oxygen including associated monitoring, recording of observations and correct use of equipment.
Care for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome
To assist in meeting the care and development needs of the babies and children.
Report any changes in the infant's condition to relevant personnel, and implement changes and evaluate care as directed
Participate in wards rounds
Ensure nurseries are adequately stocked
Act as an advocate, liaise, report and document any relevant nursing or social issues to the registered nurse
Work effectively and efficiently alongside Midwives in Transitional Care
Demonstrate a basic understanding and practice of Child Protection
About us
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job
Job responsibilities
Following a programme of training and assessment take responsibility for individual patient care under the supervision of a trained nurse as allocated by the nurse in charge
Undertake the following procedures/ activities for babies and families requiring Transitional Care/Post-natal and/or special care:
Implement & evaluate the agreed plan of care, review and update plan accordingly
Demonstrate an understanding of, assess, evaluate care in relation to infant hygiene, nutritional care, thermoregulatory care, monitoring and undertake associated practical aspects within sphere of responsibility
Carry out daily checks and cleaning of specialised equipment used for infant feeding.
To prepare babies feeds accurately and monitor and record their feeding. This includes the management of Naso/oro gastric tube feeding for which it is mandatory to achieve yearly competencies related to infant tube feeding. Registered Nurses or Non-Registered Nurses with competencies will perform the insertion of Naso/oro-gastric tubes.
Support and assist mothers in breast-feeding/expressing
Maintain cleanliness of the milk fridges/freezers and milk expressing equipment. Check temperatures and cleanliness milk fridges and freezers
Care for stable infants receiving low flow oxygen including associated monitoring, recording of observations and correct use of equipment.
Care for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome
To assist in meeting the care and development needs of the babies and children.
Report any changes in the infants condition to relevant personnel, and implement changes and evaluate care as directed
Participate in wards rounds
Ensure nurseries are adequately stocked
Act as an advocate, liaise, report and document any relevant nursing or social issues to the registered nurse
Work effectively and efficiently alongside Midwives in Transitional Care
Demonstrate a basic understanding and practice of Child Protection including legislation and procedures and attend social care meetings as required
Engage and interact effectively with carers, encouraging them to be actively involved in planning and delivering care to their infant, facilitating complete transfer of care
To teach parent craft education in preparation for the families discharge to home
Undertake parent IBLS training
To maintain accurate patient records and charts up to date
Undertake transfer of infants care to other wards, the Neonatal Outreach team and discharge to the community
To accept the guidance and supervision of the Senior Nursing staff in order to learn and develop
To ensure a high degree of safety at all times
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Demonstrate responsibility for professional development by:
Completion of Transitional Care training programme
Personal Development Review Plan
Practical application of knowledge gained
Sharing of knowledge, skills and attitudes
Keep up to date with changing practices and make full use of relevant training opportunities
Practical application of knowledge gained through in-house and formal training opportunities
Contribute to the learning environment.
Participate in research as requested by registered nurse within own sphere of competency
Contribute to the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based care in the writing of shared guidelines and protocols for care
Attend all required mandatory updates
COMMUNICATION
Liaise and negotiate effectively with all professional disciplines and ancillary departments concerned with the care of children and babies.
Attend and contribute to staff meetings
Give concise verbal accounts of childs care to nurse in charge
LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Maintain confidentiality at all times
Be familiar with unit/hospital emergency procedures
Keep nurse in charge aware of any difficulties arising from patient treatment or accident to child, relative or staff
Assist in filling out relevant forms
Be aware of local policies, taking active steps to keep updated:
Health and safety
Data protection and access to health records
Disciplinary and Grievance procedure
Complaints by parents/children
Uniform
Security
Study/Annual and Maternity Leave
Equal opportunity
Individual Performance review (IPR)
Use and store equipment correctly and safely.
Share knowledge of babies/children with other members of staff
Enhance own knowledge through private study and organised study days as appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NVQ 3 or equivalent qualification in early years child care or equivalent
* Recent and relevant evidence of practice
* Basic Life support
* NNEB Advanced Practice
Communication Skills
* Able to work and communicate with multidisciplinary team
* Legible, accurate and concise hand writing skills and IT skills
* Knowledge of SBAR
Experience
* Care of the newborn
* Recognition of the healthy baby and deteriorating baby
* oRecent experience of care of the newborn in hospital setting
Skills
* oAble to assess a situation, identify any risk or potential problem and act appropriately
* oParent craft teaching
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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