Neonatal Assistant

5 months ago


London, United Kingdom St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Neonatal assistant will support the Nursing workforce to provide safe effective care within the neonatal unit; ensuring evidence based care for patients under the indirect supervision of a registered nurse (RN). The neonatal assistant will aid in providing stock of supplies to ICU, HDU and SC nurseries, collection of medications and blood products, cleaning of equipment and aiding in transfers to and from the neonatal unit. To promote a friendly and supportive atmosphere for parents and relatives in which they can learn to care for their babies. For further details please see Job Description.

**To utilise a variety of strategies to communicate effectively**: with the neonate’s family/carers, the multidisciplinary team, other departments within the Trust and pertinent agencies outside the organisation.

The Healthcare Assistant may be expected to participate in audits and service improvement initiatives. The Nursing Associate will be expected to supervise and support HCAs, Trainee Nursing Associates and Pre-registration nurses.

St George’s Neonatal Unit is a perinatal medical and surgical referral centre, covering the South West London sector and beyond. The unit has a capacity of 40 cots, 12 of which are intensive care, 12 high dependency and 16 special care. We have a large medical and nursing establishment of 187 with a range of nursing positions from Neonatal Assistants to Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners.

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting - one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information and also the person specification for this role.



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