Neonatal Homecare NurseNHS
Job summary
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Neonatal Homecare Nurse to work within Neonatal Home care Service
This model of Neonatal Community Care is provided across Leicester and Northamptonshire region, including Hospitals of Leicester, Kettering and Northampton Hospitals . Posts currently available for the Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutlands area
The post holder will be an excellent team worker and will be responsible for ensuring highest standards of clinical care and evidence based practice for infants within the scope of neonatal outreach, providing specialist on-going care for the neonate and advice, support and education to the family in the home environment.
We are delighted to offer a 7 day service and have well established services including Home phototherapy for jaundiced babies, Home Oxygen and Home naso gastric tube feeding
The Neonatal Home careTeam provides a service covering 7 days a week, from 08:00-1700Monday to Sunday
We are seeking a highly motivated Neonatal Nurse to join our forward thinking family focused neonatal team. The successful candidate will demonstrate drive and motivation to support expansion of such an exciting service. To be successful in this role you will need to be registered nurse/midwife , ideally a post specialist neonatal course QIS experience, current Health visitor or Paediatric community care would be considered
Main duties of the job
The job holder will assist Neonatal Unit, transitional care based staff with early and appropriate discharge planning in accordance with the criteria for outreach care.
To provide a seamless timely discharge from hospital to the home environment. Providing and delivery of parent education programmes including Basic life support.
Work without direct supervision, including the assessment of care needs, plan, organise and implement care at home ensuring continuous provision of integrated care.
To provide on-going holistic care within the community setting for vulnerable neonates and their family , ensuring equitable care across diverse communities
Provide specialist on-going care for the neonate and education, advice and support to the family in the home environment.
Monitor nutrition, feeding skills and growth, ensuring onward referral when indicated .Monitor and plot growth and identify when intervention is required to improve growth .
Job description
Develop and facilitate others in promoting an evidence based learning culture and practice, supporting new starters and students.
Recognise , prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations
Take responsibility for the care needs of individual allocated patients, referring to the Band 6/7 when necessary for advice .
Provide evidence of work diary , identifying planned visits in accordance with lone worker policy
Monitor and inform of relevant changes of care plan required to meet the health needs of our babies following assessment and discussion of any changes to their condition by appropriate escalation
Work as one team , providing cross site cover as required
The job holder will take a proactive role in the education and training of the multidisciplinary team(s), providing on-going supervision and support where neonates require on- going care needs within neonatal outreach.
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.
Report safeguarding concerns, follow safe guarding advice, initiate action/referrals where appropriate.
To be confident and competent within the Outreach setting as a lone worker in accordance with trust policy
Ensure that fully accurate, complete and contemporaneous nursing records are written and maintained for each patient
About us
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
- high-quality care for all,
- being a great place to work,
- partnerships for impact, and
- research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
- we are compassionate,
- we are proud,
- we are inclusive, and
- we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.