Bank Neonatal Advanced Clinical Practitioner

These roles offer an exciting opportunity for already established ACPs to work within their specialist area withinNeonatal Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Level 1 SCBU

As part of our bank, you will play a key role in supporting high-quality, patient-centred care across urgent and acute pathways. You will work alongside multidisciplinary teams in fast-paced, rewarding environments, contributing your advanced clinical skills to assess, diagnose, and manage infants, children, and young people.

We are looking for ACPs who are confident in autonomous clinical decision-making, adaptable, and committed to delivering safe and effective care.

Please refer to the attached job descriptions for full details of each role and their specific requirements.

Please ensure within your application you specify the area you are applying for (Neonates) and evidence how you meet all essential criteria.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received

· Manage the nursing team, providing 24hr cover of SCBU

· 12 cot special care baby unit (including 2 high dependency spaces)

· ACP and Nurse-led neonatal service supporting obstetric unit

· Skill mix of staff ranging from Band 2 and 3 neonatal healthcare assistants, Band 5 and 6 neonatal nurses. Band 7 Trainee Neonatal Advanced Clinical practitioners and Band 8a Neonatal advanced clinical practitioners

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting
your application.

· The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will provide proactive, effective holistic service for newborns on SCBU, delivery-suite and postnatal wards. This includes responsibility for the clinical care and management for babies in a nurse led unit. In the absence of the ward manager supervise and deploy staff.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Our Paediatric and Neonatal services are expanding, and we are seeking experienced, motivated ACPs to join our bank team.