Qualified in Speciality Neonatal Staff Nurse

Job overview

Exciting opportunity arise for a Junior Sister/Charge nurse in Same day Emergency Care Department (SDEC), unit within Urgent and Emergency care .

We provide support with CPD and revalidation as well as in house training specific to the speciality.

Our Matron, Senior Sister and the rest of the multidisciplinary team will support your development and will invest their own expertise and time with you to ensure your career and the service continues to develop.

Main duties of the job

This is a great opportunity for you to join a highly skilled, dynamic and friendly multidisciplinary team whose goals are to constantly improving our skills and inspiring others to improve patients’ journey. 

You will be someone who can offer strong clinical leadership and organisational skills and will also have a gift for inspiring multi-disciplinary teams to continually improve clinical quality and patient satisfaction.

If this role fits your profile we would love you to be part of our team.

Working for our organisation

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is West Norfolk has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm. The medieval port of King's Lynn has some very interesting architecture.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.

In February 2022 the QEH the Care Quality Commission rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information about the job role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

RGN Degree/Diploma in nursing

Evidence of Post registration Educational Continuing development

Desirable criteria

Recognised NMC Teaching and Assessing Qualification or equivalent, or willingness to undertake, or in progress.

Experience

Essential criteria

Post registration experience

Evidence of innovation and achievements in clinical practice

Can demonstrate their experience of collaborative working

Can demonstrate the use of appropriate criteria to prioritise patient case load

Desirable criteria

Evidence of working as part of a multi- disciplinary working experience

Demonstrates experience of clinical risk management

Community experience

Skills

Essential criteria

Proven compassionate care experience

Demonstrates understanding of efficient and effective use of resources where the workload can be unpredictable

Demonstrates the ability to prioritise and implement and use new ways of working.

Ability to prioritise

Demonstrates a high level of clinical expertise

Understands specific needs of patients complex cases

Can demonstrate knowledge of current discharge to assess processes.

Knowledge of NHS plan and national nursing strategy

Demonstrate knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and its implications for practice

Desirable criteria

Successful change management

Audit experience / research skills

Experience of Patient and Public Involvement in Service Delivery

Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).

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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:

Flexible working opportunities

Free counselling service

NHS Pension scheme

Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*

Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause

Free parking for all staff until March 2024

Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.

We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.

Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.

Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.

Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to day- work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff shoulld be computer literate.

Team QEH are one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 in 20/21 and ranked 10/16 in the Eastern Region. We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and also recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.