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Job summary

Main area
Neonatal Intensive Care
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
289-SC-2101-A
Employer
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Chelsea and Westminster NHSFT
Town
CHELSEA
Salary
£51,488 - £57,802 per annum incl. HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/05/2024 23:59

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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

Neonatal Complex, Palliative & Bereavement CNS Sister

NHS AfC: Band 7

About our Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.

Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster.  Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.

Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Job overview

To lead and facilitate the provision of emotional and practical support to infants and their parents on the Neonatal unit who require complex, palliative and end of life care. This will also include providing support to families in the antenatal period.

To be a key worker for these families and provide on-going and continuing support and facilitate family centred care across maternity, Neonatal and Paediatric services.

Main duties of the job

  • The specialist nurse will provide an experienced liaison route for all professionals in the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) working in collaboration to achieve consistent care for this group of babies and families
  • The specialist nurse will receive referrals (antenatal and from other units) and make direct referrals to doctors, GP’s, HV’s, Community Nursing Teams, children’s hospices and other Allied Health Professionals
  • The specialist nurse will ensure early identification of appropriate babies for transfer, ensuring they are cared for in the most appropriate environment. This will include the smooth transition to other services such as Paediatric unit whilst liaising and working closely with internal and external MD
  • Responsibility for reporting of neonatal deaths to the MBRRACE Register and the Child Death Overview Panel and oversight of neonatal death reviews (Perinatal Mortality Review Tool) along with the designated neonatal consultant

Working for our organisation

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To support families through the period of diagnosis, and where there may not be a diagnosis. To act as an advocate for families whilst also empowering families and encouraging parental participation
  • To visit families at home where appropriate, following discharge or the death of a baby. Support families in a nurse led clinic
  • To take an active role in the Neonatal Mortality& Morbidity meeting, ensuring all babies who have died have been discussed in a timely manner and have had their Perinatal Mortality Review Tool outcome completed and submitted
  • To take an active role in the weekly Perinatal Integrated Multidisciplinary Service (PIMS), maintaining the database working closely with the Fetal Medicine Midwif
  • To ensure the MBBRACE data and the database for deceased babies is accurate, regularly updated and is in accordance with national guidance and the Trust risk management team
  • To promote communication between primary and secondary health care providers and Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, as well as the non-statutory sector of Specialist Palliative Care services

Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.

Person specification

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Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse (Child/Adult)
  • Post-graduate certificate or diploma
  • Post registration qualification relevant to area of speciality or equivalent Neonatal intensive care qualification> 3 years
  • Teaching/mentorship qualification
  • Current NLS
  • Significant neonatal experience following specialist neonatal training
  • Wide variety of clinical experience
  • Experience of excellence in leading all/part of a clinical team in practice
  • Highly developed verbal, Non-verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience of teaching and supporting learners/new staff ect
  • Proven clinical knowledge linked to area of speciality and excellence in care delivery
  • Proven knowledge of safety issues through clinical governance and risk management
  • Excellent communication skills with patients, relatives, staff and external contracts including in challenging situations, demonstrating respect and kindness
  • Awareness of current issues and NHS reforms
  • Evidence based knowledge of current clinical and professional issues related to Neonatal Palliative and End of Life care
Desirable criteria
  • Master’s degree or working towards one
  • Experience of clinical supervision
  • Experience in Neonatal Palliative Care
  • Experience in Neonatal bereavement support
  • Experience of risk management/assessment
  • Demonstrates desire to implement new ideas

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDWe are a Living Wage EmployerCapital Nurse, LondonHealthy Workplace - Commitment 2018Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoTimewise helps businesses to attract and develop the best talent through flexible working.No smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthArmed Forces Covenant Bronze AwardArmed Forces Covenant

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rebecca Davies
Job title
Matron Neonatal Services
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07800580491