Senior Charge Nurse/ Midwife-Women and Children’s-Neonatology

Job Description

The role

An exciting opportunity for Senior Charge Nurse within the award winning Neonatal Unit at the Royal Hospital for Children. Rotational post between ITU/HDU and SC, covering days, nights, weekends and public holidays. Requires degree level education and a live NMC UK pin.

Duration, Location and Working Pattern

• Location: Royal Hospital for Children, Neonatal Unit
• Fixed term contract for 12 months
• Part time, 26.25 hours per week
• Rotational shift pattern

Key responsibilities

• Ensure coordination of the patient journey by planning and coordinating the episode of care, including smooth transition to other settings, promoting effective discharge and communication with interdisciplinary and interagency teams as required.
• Coordinate nursing/midwifery interventions, influencing clinical decisions and monitoring the quality of patient care provided through using expert clinical knowledge relevant to own field of practice, underpinned by theory and experience.
• Within a multidisciplinary team environment, develop a culture of person centred care by being highly visible, communicating regularly with patients, relatives and/or carers, promoting a caring environment where equality and diversity issues are managed in line with organisational policy, including dissemination of learning points.
• Support the learning and development of all staff, creating a learning environment that ensures effective learning opportunities for all staff and students, including appropriate orientation and induction programmes, a range of clinical support strategies (mentoring, coaching, clinical supervision and action learning) and planning ongoing mandatory training and relevant education/development opportunities.
• Manage the practice setting, ensuring effective use of resources and workforce planning by monitoring workload and, through efficient rostering, maintaining appropriate staffing levels taking account of role and competence of staff when delegating work, contributing to the management of the ward/department budget.
• Manage the nursing/midwifery team by ensuring compliance by self and others with professional standards, legislation, national and organisational policies, leading recruitment and selection, attendance management, ensuring grievance and disciplinary matters within own department are identified, actioned and reported to the appropriate manager.
• Reduce the risk of cross infection and early identification of “at risk” patients.
• Promote and maintain a culture in which safety related to infection prevention and control is of the highest importance.
• Promote a clean and safe environment by ensuring compliance with policies and protocols in relation to HAI.

Knowledge, training, qualifications and/or experience required to do the job

• Demonstrated ongoing clinical development and awareness of NHSGGC policies and strategies.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.

Essential

• Registered Nurse Adult or Child Branch / Registered Midwife.
• Neonatal Qualification.
• Educated to degree level.
• Evidence of promoting professional practice.
• Leadership experience / ability to lead a team.
• 5 years post registration experience in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desirable

• Senior Charge Nurse / Leadership Course.

What we offer

We offer a wide range of supportive policies designed to enhance your employee journey, including a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, Cycle to Work Scheme, bursary scheme and extensive learning and development opportunities.

• Minimum 27 days annual leave, increasing with length of service, plus public holidays.
• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme, including life insurance benefits.
• Salary Sacrifice Car Benefit Scheme.
• Development opportunities including study bursaries, e learning and classroom courses.
• Enhanced pay for working public holidays.
• NHS discounts on a wide range of goods and services.
• Confidential employee support and assistance, including counselling and psychological therapies.

Equal opportunities

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde encourages applications from all sections of the community and is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We are proud of the diverse workforce we employ.

We are committed to work life balance and offer flexible working options where service needs allow, and will discuss flexible working during the recruitment process.

NHSGGC has pledged commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and welcomes applications from the Armed Forces Community.