Bank Staff Nurse - Special Care Babies Unit

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Staff Nurses to join our bank. to work in our The Special Care Baby Unit, In return we will offer you:
Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
Paid annual leave
NHS pension scheme
A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
Option to block-book shifts in a set period
SMS notifications of shift availability
Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
Free uniform, where applicable
To find out more about the benefits of working on the bank visit our website www.yournorthumbriacareer.co.uk/staff-bank
The Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) is based at The Northumbria Hospital and is a level one neonatal unit, comprising of 12 special care cots. It supports a busy, high risk obstetric Maternity unit. We do provide high dependency care and stabilise infants requiring intensive care, prior to transfer. SCBU has an established innovative staffing model with an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) delivered service, on site . For over twenty years our existing ANNPs have had clinical responsibility and leadership of the neonatal unit with support for the Consultant Paediatricians
We have a range of shifts 7 days per week including day shifts, early shifts , late shifts , twilight, nights and weekends. With bank you can pick and choose shifts which suit you.
The role is to provide high standards of care to patients accessing our services. You will need to embrace our trust values, demonstrate excellent communication skills, with a flexible approach to your work.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the ward team under the direction of the Ward Manager.
To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries

Please refer the Job description for details