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The Role
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 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 require constant theoretical and clinical updating.
Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the Service
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provides hospital-based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, and North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
- Educated to Masters Level.
- Postgraduate qualification in Advanced Neonatal Nurse/Midwife Practitioner
- Registered Nurse / Midwife with valid NMC Registration with demonstrable post-registration experience
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience as an Advanced Neonatal Nurse/Midwife Practitioner on Tier 1.
- Be able to demonstrate knowledge of NHS Scotland’s Leadership Qualities framework or equivalent framework.
- Management knowledge gained through experience and continuous professional development.
- Extensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the health care agenda.
- Experience of assessing training needs.
- Knowledge and experience of needs assessment and analysis/interpretation of related data
- A proven track record in sound and effective leadership. Ability to think strategically, and corporately and act as a team player.
- A proven track record in developing innovative solutions in meeting organisational requirements and motivating staff to affect change.
- A proven track record in developing teams/services and integrated solutions to complex and challenging problems.
- Effective time management skills.
- Critical Reasoning skills
- Working knowledge of basic information technology.
It would be great if you also have
- Neonatal Life Support Provider
- Experience working at a national level in the implementation of new developments post-registration
- Experience as an Advanced Neonatal Nurse/Midwife Practitioner on Tier 1
- Expert practice in the speciality and evidence of relevant CPD
Contract type
- Permanent
- Full time
- 37.5 hours
Location and Working Pattern
This role will be based in the Neonatal within the University Hospital Wishaw
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!
Please contact Cheryl Clark, Chief Midwife on cheryl.clark@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Tracy Watson, Recruitment Administrator on tracy.watson@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with the length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
Paid sick leave increases with length of service
Occupational health services
Employee Counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures
NHS Lanarkshire has a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.
Further Information
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack or our recruitment webpage.
Additional Information for Applicants
- Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
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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.
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.
*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.
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interviews may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
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