University Hospital Wishaw
About The Organisation
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
The Role
The post holder will assist the Senior Charge Midwife in the overall delivery of high quality safe, effective evidence based woman and baby centred care. They will be involved in providing both individualised patient care and in planning, implementing and evaluating clinical care within all areas of the neonatal unit, ensuring compliance with NHS Lanarkshires policy and procedures and maintaining statutory requirements in accordance with the NMC. To provide safe, effective, person centred care.
In this key role, you will:
Planning, assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating planned programmes of care for the ill and premature neonate in intensive care, high dependency and specialist care.
Being an advocate for women, the neonate and their families
Provide a health education role for women, their partners and extended families
Setting and maintaining standards of care
Recognising deviations from normal and implementing appropriate action
Assist in the formulating of policy and procedures
Participates in audit, research and risk management
Supervises and deploys staff within a defined area in the absence of the Charge Midwife/Nurse.
Ensures a suitable learning environment exists to support trained/student and untrained staff
Provides advice and support to staff with regard to care of neonates and women in the postnatal period including issues such as child protection
What You'll Bring:
Registered Nurse with valid NMC Registration
Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.
Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice.
Leadership skills to enable the day to day management of service delivery.
What we Offer
As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:
1. Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
2. Generous NHS pension scheme
3. Annual incremental salary progression
4. Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
5. NHS discounts and more.
NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure childrens settings.
For informal discussion, please contact Sharon Oosterbosch, Neonatal Senior Nurse on osch@
If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact David Murray, Recruitment Administrator @
Interested?
Full details about the role are provided in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Please review our which explain key information including closing dates, amendments, righttowork requirements, sponsorship eligibility and important points to be aware of before submitting your application
You can also learn more about working with NHS Lanarkshire by viewing our Information Pack
Unless otherwise stated, the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.
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