An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proficient, innovative ANNP to join our established proactive team with a designated Senior ANNP Lead and an established career development pathway.
University Hospitals Plymouth hosts the Network Neonatal Unit for the Southwest Peninsula, providing non-surgical intensive care and SONAR south, the transport services for Devon and Cornwall. The unit has 14 intensive/high dependency cots, 8 special care cots and 18 cots in the adjoining Transitional Care Ward supporting a 7 day/week Neonatal Outreach Service.
The successful candidate will undertake advanced clinical care within the maternity and neonatal departments with the opportunity to develop their transport skills. As experienced senior nurses the ANNPs promote nurse-led initiatives, develop individual and team objectives and play a key role in service development.
The Unit supports the MSc Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner programme, which has been successfully developed in partnership with the University of Plymouth. This contemporary curriculum has facilitated the recruitment and training of Enhanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (ENNP), developing ways to support nursing and medical staff in providing neonatal care pathways; with the potential to develop into the ANNP role.
Main duties of the job
1. Assess, differentially diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment interventions for patients by virtue of expert clinical judgement and close liaison with members of the MDT.
2. Use expertise and decision‑making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence‑based judgements and/or diagnoses.
3. Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions which may include prescribing medicines, therapies, lifestyle advice and care.
4. Exercise professional judgement to manage risk appropriately, especially where there may be complex and unpredictable events and supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of individuals, families and carers.
***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and ‘At Risk’ status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***
About us
We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams.
We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues.
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice Areas
2. Central Delivery Suite
3. Postnatal Wards including Transitional Care Unit
4. Transfer of sick neonates within the Maternity department
5. Supporting the transport of neonates within the ODN region
6. The post holder will be based within the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and work as member of the neonatal team having identified sessions providing advanced clinical care. They will develop ways to support nursing and medical staff in providing acute neonatal pathway care.
For further details please see the attached JD & PS.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
- oExtensive demonstrable experience within speciality of Neonatal Care.
- oManagement ability and demonstrable leadership experience
- oExcellent clinical and practical skills
- oMulti-professional supervision
Qualifications
- oStatutory Professional Registration (NMC)
- oSignificant contribution to a Portfolio of Evidence
- oIndependent non-medical prescribing,
- oPrevious ANNP experience
- oNLS Instructor
Aptitude and abilities
- oWorks within sphere of responsibilities and acknowledges limitations.
- oUnderstands the principles of family integrated care (FiCare).
- oAbility to facilitate change within the clinical area.
- oProven evidence of nursing project implementation
- oProven evidence of change management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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