Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Neonatal Outreach Nurse
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Please contact Louise Marsh, Neonatal Outreach Nurse/Ward Manager, Louise.marsh14@nhs.net
About The Role
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Neonatal Outreach Nurse at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. This is a fixed term post - 2 years contract.
The primary aim of the role is to ensure that a high-quality Neonatal outreach care is delivered to neonates and their families.
The Nurse will plan, deliver, and evaluate the care of Neonate and their families in the neonatal unit and home setting.
As a Nurse, all activities provide opportunities for acting as a role model for staff.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the planning, delivery and evaluation of care to meet the personalised health and wellbeing care needs of patients, in line with the Trust’s Values and Nursing & Midwifery Professional Framework.
This will be achieved through the core competencies/ dimensions of the role, clinical practice, and acting as the patient advocate.
Main duties
- To assist staff, based on the Neonatal Unit and Transitional Care Unit, with early and appropriate discharge planning in accordance with the criteria for neonatal outreach care.
- To provide a seamless timely discharge from the hospital to the home environment.
- To provide on-going holistic care within the community setting for vulnerable neonates and their families.
- To liaise with members of the primary health care team and other health care professionals to ensure the provision of appropriate seamless, on-going care.
- To work effectively and efficiently as an Outreach team member as well as independently in the planning, assessment, implementation and evaluation of neonatal community care.
- To plan, time manage and initiate a weekly schedule based on workload requirements, which will remain flexible, thus ensuring that individual family needs are met.
- Prepare and receive reports from health care professionals, ensuring good communication and working links with all others.
- Maintain accurate, legible and legal clinical records relevant to the care of the neonate in the community.
- Participate in nurse led clinics when appropriate.
- Develop enhanced skills in neonatal resuscitation with attendance at Trust and National Newborn Life Support courses.
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Qualifications
Essential person specification requirements
- Registered Nurse/ Midwife / BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent
- Qualification/training and experience in specialty
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Neonatal Life support NLS
Experience
- Significant proven Neonatal qualification and intensive care experience
Knowledge and Awareness
- Aware of own limitations
- The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trusts Values and Behaviours
Skills And Abilities
- Lead, influence and motivate others.
- Demonstrate innovation in practice.
- Demonstrate a high level of personal and Professional autonomy and an understanding of professional accountability.
- Incorporate high-quality evidence in Neonatal care
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships.
Personal attributes
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships.
- Be part of MY team
Our Team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
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Our Benefits
- Access to the NHS pension plan
- Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
- Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
- Extensive benefits and support, including:
- Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
- Home electronics scheme
- Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
- Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
- Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
- Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
- Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
- Career progression, training and support
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