GR – Registered Children’s Nurses – Neonatal Service

Job Description

Overview

Location: Royal Hospital for Children and Young People

Employment type: Various Contract Options

Registered Children’s Nurses – Neonatal Service

Our Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan sets out our Vision, Ambitions and Values that enable excellent care for our patients and service users. It also demonstrates what you can expect from our organisation and what you can aspire to in your own career development. A collaborative, person focused approach is at the very centre of everything we aspire to achieve, and necessary to deliver care that is high quality, compassionate, safe and effective. We continue to work towards having a diverse and inclusive culture for people who work for us and use our services. We want everyone to realise their full potential and make a positive contribution. We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and communities. We are committed to supporting the development of a nursing and midwifery workforce that is made up of diverse skills and experiences. We are interested in your passion for developing with us as a leader as well as demonstrating alignment with the values and ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. We are committed to providing the strong foundations of clinical education with our Clinical Education and Training team, our education co-ordinators, robust induction programmes and preceptorship as well as working with you to build on your leadership strengths.

Recruitment process

We use a values and competency based recruitment process that is linked to the ambitions set our in our Strategic Plan. Click the link below for more information on our interview questions:

Exciting opportunities are available to join our Neonatal Service within NHS Lothian at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE). We have Band 5 positions available for Registered Nurses qualified in either Child Health (with experience in another speciality) or Adult Nurses with critical care experience.

We are looking for passionate, caring, motivated people to join our highly skilled neonatal teams. You will be joining friendly, high performing units. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. Neonatal Services continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available. Both units have achieved Level 3 Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation by UNICEF.

The Simpsons Centre, within RIE, is a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and has a cot capacity of 39, divided into 3 areas of care:

• 9 Intensive Care Cots
• 8 High Dependency Cots
• 22 Special Care Cots

The Simpsons Centre has ambitious plans to deliver cutting edge healthcare and has a redevelopment plan in place to re-design our family facilities. We hope to enhance our Family Integrated Care (FICare) we deliver. Additionally, we are committed to achieving BLISS baby charter and received the Pledge of Improvement in February 2023.

For a tour of our NICU at RIE, please click on the below link:

On occasion, we help out the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) in St Johns Hospital, Livingston. SCBU is a Level 1 unit and has a cot capacity of 10, divided into 3 areas:

• 2 Emergency Stabilisation Cots (for transfer out)
• 2 High Dependency Cots
• 8 Special Care Cots

SCBU provides care to babies who do not require intensive care and babies born after 32 weeks gestation. Our aim is to provide care for babies who require extra help and support, based on a Family Integrated Care (FICare) approach. We work closely with families and members of the multidisciplinary team, to help ensure that there is a smooth transition from hospital to home.

What We Can Offer You

You will have a robust 6 week supernumerary induction and work with a range of staff who will support your learning needs and work toward clinical competencies. You will have the opportunity to shadow and work closely with our education team and Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (ANNP’s). On completion of your induction, you will then complete the perceptorship programme (if newly qualified) and IV therapy competencies. After a period of consolidation and working in Special Care, you will then advance to High Dependency after completing the high dependency in-house study day and will have the opportunity to shadow in Intensive Care (RIE). It will then be an expectation to go through a 1 year post-graduate masters level Neonatal Course which will provide you with the theory and skill to become a ‘Qualified in Specialty’ (QIS) nurse and work independently with Intensive Care premature infants from 22 weeks gestation onward.

If you would like to have an informal visit or have a tour of any of our areas, please email the Generic Recruitment Team, who will be able to help arrange this for you: .

If you are an internal NHS Lothian Band 5 candidate we will not proceed with shortlisting and interview and instead you will move to our internal transfer process. To find out more about the internal transfer process, please click on the link below:

If you would like to arrange a stay and grow conversation to discuss your career, career pathways and opportunities within NHS Lothian please click on the link below:

Please note, we anticipate that the interviews for this advert will take place on Tuesday 20th January at the Comely Bank Centre in Edinburgh. There is no alternative interview date.

Please note, we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage