Senior Sister / Special care & Transitional Care Lead

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Understanding of local, national and international strategies relevant to Neonatal Transitional Care (NTC) – CNST / Saving Babies Lives bundle  Knowledge and understanding of BAPM standards of care  Knowledge of UNICEF BFI Initiative  Knowledge of BLISS charter  Knowledge of requirements for implementation of NTC
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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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.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The roles key focus is to facilitate the implementation and
evaluation of care pathways within Neonatal Transitional Care
(NTC). With the objective of keeping mothers and babies
together where possible, and avoid term admissions to the
neonatal unit. It will involve close working with the inpatient
Neonatal and Midwifery matron’s both strategically and
operationally to meet the BAPM recommendations and
framework for neonatal transitional care.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Senior role at Epsom and St Helier.