Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
| Posting date: | 22 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £61,927.00 to £68,676.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £61927.00 - £68676.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE5 9RS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9213-25-0460 |
Summary
1. Attends high risk deliveries ensuring that neonates receives effective resuscitation, stabilisation and safe transfer. 2. Work autonomously in providing specialist care and systematically manage caseload of patients to deliver individualised patient care in areas of responsibility according to agreed protocols, units guidelines and professional scope of practice. 3. Direct responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation and diagnosis of patients on admission. Including referral to appropriate specialists as required. 4. Initiate treatment, including drug therapy, intravenous fluids including parenteral nutrition, arrange further investigations, make appropriate referral and formulate treatment plan to ensure safe management and continuity of care whilst admitted in the neonatal unit. 5. Performs formal discharge examinations and determines whether a baby is fit for discharge. To ensure that all follow ups where necessary have been arranged and that all specialists team involve in babys care have been informed. 6. Obtain, interpret and monitor laboratory investigations and take actions as necessary 7. Requests, interpret and responds to other investigations such as x-rays, ECGs, ultrasound scans and other blood tests. 8. Order and prescription of blood products in accordance to clinical guidelines and scope of practice. 9. Participates in multidisciplinary team meetings, attends ward rounds and hand over. 10. Utilise scope of practice to undertake Non-Medical Prescribing role and provide advice on medicine management issues associated with neonates. Work within Trust policy for Medicines Management 11. Utilise advanced knowledge and skills relating to the speciality to provide specialist advice to other members of the multidisciplinary team on the basis of patient assessment. 12. Provide a seamless, high quality service from referral through to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and review, referring to other specialists as required. Provide guidance to staff, patients and their families and carers on pathway navigation 13. Lead in the development and updating of referral guidelines and policies for the service. 14. Use highly developed communication skills to effectively communicate with colleagues, patients and their relatives/carers, making reports and liaising as required with medical staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team both verbally and in writing. 15. Use professional judgement to act as an advocate for patients to ensure a patient focused approach to the delivery of care. Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management. Escalate any concerns via the nursing / professional structures as required 16. Work towards safe and timely discharge and/ or transfer of care of patients from or between hospitals and services and healthcare professionals, ensuring barriers to discharge / transfer are identified and acted upon appropriately. 17. Report and raise concerns related to Safeguarding, accessing advice and support as required. Be conversant with Trust policies for safeguarding including the assessment of mental Capacity, and consideration of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards(DOLS) and the application of the principles of Prevent (counter terrorism awareness) 18. Ensure effective and accurate verbal or written handover of patients between healthcare professionals 19. Ensure that high standards of all documentation are maintained, with accurate, complete and up-to-date information regarding patient care are kept in accordance with Trust standards. 20. Monitor the quality and standard of care provided by all members of the team and all staff in clinical areas. Identifying any skills or training gaps and escalating to the appropriate Senior Nurse or Matron. 21. Undertake training to develop further advanced clinical practice roles required by the service in order to provide a high standard of patient care. 22. Practice within the scope of professional registration (NMC)