Job summary
- Main area
- Neonatal
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Lates and weekends as per matron roster)
- Job ref
- 153-SP03058
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Matron- Local Neonatal Unit
Band 8a
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
We are looking for an exceptional, highly motivated, innovative leader to join our Matron team within the Womens, Childrens, Cancer and Support Services Care Group. The Matron for the Local Neonatal Unit/ NICU) at University Hospital Dorset.
The Neonatal service currently based at Poole hospital is part of the Trusts exciting transformation programme and will be moving to the newly built BEACH building In April 2025.
The Neonatal service is a Level 2 service which works collaboratively within the Thames Valley & Wessex Neonatal Network receiving referrals from Dorchester and Tertiary centre links within the Wessex region.
The Neonatal services comprises of 20 cots: 10 ITU/HDU and 10 special care cots.
We have close working relationships with our high risk obstetric service and fetal medicine team, and care for many complex and preterm infants. As a regional centre we accept both in and ex utero transfers from a wide geographical area. We take pride in exceptional outcomes for our families, with a robust commitment to ongoing quality improvement. There are fully integrated support services of pharmacy, social services, family support, dietetics, radiology, speech and language therapy and occupational Therapy. Our team regularly contributes to national meetings as well as national working groups from CRG, BAPM to NICE. We work closely with our colleagues in maternity including in the MatNeo QI programmes of work.
Base Location: Poole Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical and professional leadership to the Neonatal services and Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners team ensuring that action is taken at all levels to empower nurses/midwives to provide high standards of care in a safe environment.
To act as a professional role model, demonstrating the trust vision and values and ensuring that staff work within regulatory, legal and trust policies and procedures in maintaining and improving standards utilising resources available.
Take responsibility for overall monitoring of clinical standards within teams or services including overall responsibility for safe staffing, standards of clinical practice and the setting clear objectives for development, ensuring agreed programmes of work are running to plan, and promptly escalating any cause for concern through appropriate communication channels.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st Level Registered nurse/Midwife /AHP on relevant part of the Register.
- Relevant post registration specialist training at masters level equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- Masters degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven track record of operational management in the acute healthcare setting managing a ward / service/ department. Including staff, financial/
- Experience of being accountable for the delivery of a clinical/nursing service
Desirable criteria
- Experience within the Neonatal service
- Experience writing clinical policies and procedures.
Tecnical skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate expert clinical and nursing knowledge.
- Budgetary experience
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of advanced leadership qualities.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of National and Local NHS care and Nursing & Midwifery agenda
- Highly developed specialist knowledge for field of practice, underpinned by theory and experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marie Miller
- Job title
- Head of Nursing & Professions
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07789650847
- Additional information
Daniel Lockyer
NICU Matron
0300 019 8217
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