Registered Nurse Neonates

Job Description

University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire’s Level III Neonatal Unit provides a wide range of services to sick newborn babies and forms part of the South West Midlands Newborn Network . The unit currently looks after up to 8 Intensive care cots, 9 High dependency cots, 14 Special care cots and 2 Transitional care cots. Our registered nurses all rotate between areas. We are expanding our SCBU and transitional care beds and we are looking for motivated nurses to join our team to help us achieve this.The unit provides family centred care to a range of babies from those born extremely prematurely around 23 weeks gestation to term babies who are sick at birth. We offer therapies such as Nitric Oxide and Cooling, using state of the art, new equipment.Over the years the unit has built an excellent reputation for high quality healthcare and outstanding career development. We support extended roles such as Transport nurses, Neonatal educational practitioners, Research nurses, Advanced neonatal nurse practitioners, Developmental care nurse & Infant feeding nurse roles. We also encourage development onto Mentoring and Management courses to help you progress to your career. Our team of nurses also help support parent resuscitation training, Sibling support sessions as well as monthly parent coffee mornings and yearly ‘Graduate’ parties. We are also proud to have a team of UHCW change makers on the unit who are given time to enhance communications between staff and higher management as well as promoting a social, nurturing environment for staff. Due to expansion and investment in our service as well as internal promotions, the units nursing establishment has been increased. We therefore require motivated, innovative, dynamic and friendly band 5 Nurses with the Neonatal Specialist Qualification to join our expert team of clinical staff.If you are interested in this exciting opportunity to join our enthusiastic multidisciplinary team delivering excellence in neonatal care then we would love to hear from you.We welcome informal visits or discussion to explore what we can offer you.Recruiting to ValuesTo ensure that we provide world-class patient care, we recruit people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are shortlisted, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours Framework and Values Based Recruitment Factsheet which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.The Supporting Information section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.For further details / informal visits contact:Name Katie Adams Job title Ward ManagerSCBU /TC Email addres Katie.Adams@uhcw.nhs.uk Tel.number