Senior Nurse Leader

4 weeks ago


Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse, Band 7- Neonates

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced, expert leader in neonatal care with a specialty qualification to join our well-established and friendly team. As a part of our senior neonatal leadership team, you will play a crucial role in maintaining high standards of care, developing services, and compassionately leading the team.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate proven leadership qualities, showcase clinical excellence and promote innovative practice while working closely with the multidisciplinary team. You will manage day-to-day activities across ITU, HDU, Special Care, and Transitional cots, ensuring effective and safe decision-making. In addition to your leadership responsibilities, you will actively participate in staff management and leadership, leveraging your outstanding communication skills to foster a collaborative work environment. Familiarity with risk, governance, and safeguarding processes is essential to excel in this role.

This role requires a clinical expert who can provide safe and effective care, lead and manage care provision for a total of 28 cots (12 ITU/HDU, 16 Special Care) & 4 Transitional Care cots on the post-natal ward. You will have extensive experience, knowledge and understanding to be able to act as a resource for the multi-disciplinary team to provide high quality, evidence-based care and work collaboratively with families and service users to enhance service provision.

Main duties of the job

  • Provide safe and effective care for neonatal patients
  • Lead and manage care provision for 28 cots (12 ITU/HDU, 16 Special Care) & 4 Transitional Care cots
  • Act as a resource for the multi-disciplinary team to provide high quality, evidence-based care
  • Work collaboratively with families and service users to enhance service provision

Person Specification

  • Active registration with the NMC as a Registered Nurse
  • Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of a professional portfolio, registration revalidation & commitment to lifelong learning
  • Recognised Post Graduate qualification in Neonatal Nursing
  • Recognised Leadership qualification
  • Recognised Mentoring and Assessing in Clinical Practice course
  • MSc or MA e.g. completion of modules at Level 7
  • Recognised workforce planning qualification
  • Degree in Nursing

Experience

  • Experience of leading and managing a neonatal unit and neonatal clinical competence
  • Knowledge and experience of working at a middle management level in an NHS acute area
  • Experience of leading and managing a team
  • Knowledge and experience of change management, quality assurance processes and working within a budget
  • Evidence of development and evaluation of training resources
  • Up to date and experienced in safeguarding procedure and policy
  • Passion for teaching, education and practice development and ability to professionally develop individuals
  • Demonstrates commitment to research-based practice and clinical excellence and plays an active part in the introduction of research-based change to improve patient-centered care
  • Research aware

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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