Advanced Clinical Practitioner; Nurse) Neonatal Transport

Position: Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Nurse) Neonatal Transport
Location: Patchway

Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Nurse) Neonatal Transport

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Nurse) - Neonatal Critical Care Transport is a senior autonomous practitioner working across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice:
Clinical Practice, Leadership and Management, Education, and Research/Quality Improvement.

The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership in the assessment, stabilisation, management and transfer of critically ill and vulnerable neonates requiring transport within and beyond the Southwest Neonatal Network. Working autonomously and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary transport team, the ACP (Nurse) will deliver advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and decision-making in highly complex and unpredictable environments.

The ACP (Nurse) will act as a clinical leader and role model for the service, promoting compassionate, family-centred and trauma-informed care whilst supporting psychological safety, human factors awareness and continuous service improvement. The role requires highly developed communication, leadership and influencing skills, enabling effective engagement with families, colleagues, referring units, receiving centres and system partners.

The post holder will contribute to strategic service development, workforce development, education, clinical governance, research and quality improvement activities that support the continued development of SoNAR and the wider neonatal network.

Main duties of the job

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Nurse) in Neonatal Critical Care Transport provides autonomous, expert clinical care for critically ill and vulnerable newborn infants requiring stabilisation and transfer across the Southwest Neonatal Network. The post holder will lead and participate in neonatal retrievals, undertaking advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and independent decision-making in complex and dynamic environments.

Working within the multidisciplinary SoNAR team, the ACP (Nurse) will provide clinical leadership, support safe and effective patient transfers, and deliver compassionate, family-centred care. The role also contributes to education, workforce development, clinical governance, quality improvement, research and service development, helping to shape and improve neonatal transport services across the region.

About us

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations,operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol citycentreand Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South Westhas to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit andretaina workforce whichrepresentsthe rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order toensurewe'remeeting our pledge.

Job

responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• Lead and participate in the stabilisation, retrieval and transport of critically ill and vulnerable newborn infants across the South West Neonatal Network.
• Undertake advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis and management of complex neonatal patients.
• Practise autonomously within the ACP scope of practice, making…