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We are looking for an experienced Senior Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner to join the team at The University Hospital Wishaw
The post holder will be an expert clinical practitioner responsible for providing advanced clinical skills in neonatal care. The post holder will possess advanced knowledge of the critically ill neonate thus ensuring their effective management and treatment. They will provide direct patient management in collaboration and consultation with neonatologists. The post holder will provide, safe, effective, person-centred care. Prioritisation of workload based on clinical need, often urgent neonatal emergencies. Advanced physical assessment and complex management of critically ill neonates involving autonomous clinical decision-making. Clinically and professionally expected to make urgent and immediate medical and nursing decisions, such as complex treatment modalities and non-medical prescribing, for the establishment of cause and treatment of the critically ill neonate as part of or in collaboration with the neonatal care team. These advanced and complex decisions take place routinely on duty, including performing an advanced clinical assessment and diagnosis and the decision to follow or adjust neonatal care treatment pathways
Demands of the Job
Continuously required to make advanced autonomous and highly accurate, concise often urgent clinical decisions with constant pressure on time management. The post holder must have advanced neonatal care knowledge and skills, which requires constant theoretical and clinical updating.
Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the Service
Informal enquiries regarding the post will be welcomed by cheryl.clark@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
For queries regarding the application form or recruitment process only, please contact tracy.watson@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk stating the job title and reference number in the subject. Please note: all job-related queries must be directed to the informal contact noted above.
Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care-experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’
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