Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

Applications are invited for a colleague to join our well established ANNP team within our Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified ANNP to join our team and gain experience in tertiary level neonatal intensive care. The regional NICU at St Michael's Hospital provides regional tertiary neonatal intensive care for medical patients and supra-regional services for infants with surgical, neurosurgical and cardiac problems. It also works closely with the regional South West Neonatal Advice and Retrieval (SONAR) team.

St Michael's NICU is an exciting and dynamic unit, covering all aspects of neonatal care and has a strong ethos of inclusion and development of our staff.

The ANNP role encompasses all four pillars of advanced practice with 80% clinical and 20% non-clinical for leadership and management, research and audit, and education, contributing to service improvement and professional development.

The postholder will join our established neonatal team, comprising medical, nursing and allied healthcare professionals who work closely as a multidisciplinary team. As an ANNP you will work across the Tier 1 rota to provide high level clinical care within the Neonatal unit, Central delivery suite, Transitional Care and postnatal wards. You will work closely with specialist services across the Trust and the senior medical team including Consultants, Registrars and ANNPs.

The postholder will be able to take a lead role for the immediate, critical and ongoing management of sick infants and their families and have freedom to interpret and act within broad policies and protocols. This will include taking a lead role in the safe transportation of sick infants within the Trust. The postholder will be an Independent Prescriber and take a proactive role in the education of the nursing and medical teams and families of the patients within the neonatal unit.

In addition, they will actively participate in leadership activities, audit and research projects, in conjunction with the audit facilitator, and in the updating of unit protocols and guidelines. The postholder will provide ongoing supervision and support in the induction and training of medical and nursing staff, including mentoring of trainee ANNPs. They will act as a positive role model and resource for midwives, GPs, nursing and medical staff, from other areas within the Trust and beyond.

• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Neonatal Critical Care Course or equivalent (QiS)
• First Level Registered Nurse BSc RGN/RSCN/RN or Child Branch
• Current registration with NMC
• Current registration with NMC as a Non-Medical Prescriber
• ARNI provider
• NLS instructor
• BSc Neonatal Studies or equivalent
• Mentoring and Assessing or Teaching qualification

• Recent significant experience as an ANNP
• Demonstrate clinical expertise in neonatal care
• Familiar with current local and national issues
• Demonstrate leadership skills and knowledge
• Evidence of teaching experience
• Demonstrate ability to support others
• Conscientious, committed and reliable

• Basic computer skills
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others
• Good problem solving ability and skills
• Evidence of ability to use initiative, lead a team and manage change
• Ability to manage when under both individual and/or work pressure
• Good interpersonal communication and time management skills
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own and work of others
• Assertive and proactive
• Possess a high level of skill and competency in relevant area of practice
• Research and audit experience

• Resilient
• Ability to deal sensitively with emotive issues/situations
• Demonstrates personal insight and awareness
• Dynamic
• Flexible
• Enthusiastic and motivated

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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