Senior Neonatal Practitioner

Working Full time: 37.5 hours per week.

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 6 Neonatal Nurse to join our highly skilled and dedicated team at the Local Neonatal Unit in Chester.

This is a pivotal time to become part of our dynamic service within the new Women and Childrens Building featuring a purpose-built neonatal unit designed to support our Family Integrated Care model.

Our unit is committed to delivering holistic, family-centred care, empowering parents to become active and confident partners in their babys journey through structured, competency-based education and support.

• Provide and coordinate high-quality, evidence-based clinical care
• Lead the unit during shifts, ensuring safe and effective practice
• Collaborate closely with the multi-disciplinary team and Neonatal Network to drive excellent outcomes for babies and families

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 411,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

See Job Description For Further Details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs will be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.