Neonatal Unit Manager

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Nurse/Midwife to join our well established Neonatal Team as a Neonatal Unit Manager.

As Neonatal Unit Manager you will be professionally accountable and will maintain the standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession or role.

In a supervisory role utilise supervision of clinical practice, clinical audit, research, and teaching, to set, monitor and improve standards of care in addition to efficient and effective use of resources.

To be accountable for :

Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice

Enhancing the patient's experience

Managing and developing the performance of the team

Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation's objectives and deputising for Matron.

This role will have full time hours available on appointment, and there is a 20% clinical component to the role in the post holders area of specialty.

Main duties of the job

To ensure safe and effective clinical practice.

As the visible designated clinical nurse leader set standards of care and professionalism and promote teamwork within a multi-professional environment, demonstrating critical analysis and decision-making skills, leading the delivery of a clinically excellent service, influencing and facilitating change within the ward/department and where appropriate the organisation.

Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence based practice, setting, implementing and monitoring evidence based standards of care, policies, procedures and protocols.

Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of research, audit, patient feedback and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.

Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical incident reporting and root cause analysis.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.