Deputy Sister Neonatal Community Team

7 days ago


Chertsey, United Kingdom Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Our level 3 Neonatal Unit has an opportunity, for a highly motivated individual who has a passion for community care of the neonate, to join our team of specialist community nurses. The transition from an intensive care setting to home is a process that takes careful planning and preparation, as the community nurse you will guide this process and be required to assess the infant’s and parent/carer’s readiness for discharge, working closely with the family and the multidisciplinary team.

As a community worker you will need the use of a car and be confident travelling and navigating to the infants home address. You will contribute to an allocated area of responsibility which may include home oxygen, immunisation clinics or with a specific group of infants. The community team is involved in monitoring, data collection and audit of our service and good computer skills are essential.

In this role you will work autonomously and will need to have good clinical knowledge guiding your decision making. The community team works on the neonatal and transitional care unit, and in the community settings. You will be responsible for managing your own workload, escalating any concerns and prioritising care needs of infants post discharge. This will involve working effectively and efficiently with the integrated multidisciplinary team and outside agencies to develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.

This role is part of a job share to cover the 5/7 working week.

To facilitate discharge of neonates providing initial support in the family home
- To liaise with the multidisciplinary team in relation to the discharge and follow up of neonates. Liaise

with Social Services where social circumstances raise concerns
- Participate in multi-disciplinary discharge planning meetings
- Represent Neonatal Unit in Case Conferences
- Provide resuscitation training for parents
- Assist and participate in the RSV immunisation programme

To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care needs for allocated infant groups in the Community

Initiate early discharge planning, working in the Neonatal Community Outreach teamEnsure nursing staff under your supervision have a clear understanding of their duties and
responsibilities, and of the standards of performance and conduct expected of them.

Following appropriate training contribute to an allocated area of responsibility which may include Support and Educate families as they prepare for discharge
- Actively promote and implement evidence-based practice.

Participate in the writing and reviewing of Unit protocols and guidelines
home oxygen, immunisation clinics or other area identified by the community sister.

Role model organisational values, showing leadership and a behavioural approach which will promote
the principles of dignity, respect, and inclusion for all.

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment.

We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workforce. Our plans are ambitious - why not, come and be a part of our journey.

Clinical/ Professional Responsibilities
- To facilitate discharge of neonates providing initial support in the family home
- To liaise with the multidisciplinary team in relation to the discharge and follow up of neonates. Liaise

with Social Services where social circumstances raise concerns
- Participate in multi-disciplinary discharge planning meetings
- Represent Neonatal Unit in Case Conferences
- Provide resuscitation training for parents
- Assist and participate in the RSV immunisation programme
- To supervise nursing practice of students and junior staff, and the delivery of patient care in accordance

with NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Trust/Unit Policies and Procedures.
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care needs for allocated infant



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