• Job Description

  Req#: C9319-25-0440?language=en&page=750&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Special Care Baby Unit is a 12 bedded unit and cares for babies from 30 weeks gestational age 24 hours a day.

  This post is predominantly night shift working with occasional day time cover for clinics, unit cover, and attendance at training and development sessions.

  The role is to provide high standards of care to patients accessing our services. You will need to embrace our trust values, demonstrate excellent communication skills, with a flexible approach to your work.

  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.

  Main duties of the job

  You will be expected to provide high quality care and support for the babies and their families. This includes working alongside a registered nurse to provide the basic needs for babies and their families on the unit. You will also be expected communicate effectively with the nursing and multi-disciplinary team and attend training required for this role to ensure that babies and their families are receiving high quality care.

  This post is predominantly nightshift however, you will be expected to do the occasional day shift to assist with tongue tie clinic and attend training sessions.

  About us

  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.

  Date posted

  23 April 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 3

  Salary

  £24,625 to £25,674 a year pro rata per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  319-7105228KD

  Job locations

  Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

  Northumbria Way

  Cramlington

  NE23 6NZ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Working alongside a registered nurse to provide the basic needs for babies on the unit including feeding and hygiene needs. You will also be expected to support the nursing team and communicate with the MDT and families. You will also be expected to offer breastfeeding support and advice, assist with admission including putting babies onto Pas, assist with discharge preparation and general housekeeping duties including stocking up, cleaning and ordering supplies. Our tongue tie clinic is expanding therefore, you will be expected to be cover the tongue tie clinic and support the tongue tie practitioners. Training will be provided.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Working alongside a registered nurse to provide the basic needs for babies on the unit including feeding and hygiene needs. You will also be expected to support the nursing team and communicate with the MDT and families. You will also be expected to offer breastfeeding support and advice, assist with admission including putting babies onto Pas, assist with discharge preparation and general housekeeping duties including stocking up, cleaning and ordering supplies. Our tongue tie clinic is expanding therefore, you will be expected to be cover the tongue tie clinic and support the tongue tie practitioners. Training will be provided.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Knowledge of care and related procedures, clinical observations, relevant legislation
  • Completion of a competency-based programme or equivalent relevant experience
  • Level 3 qualification in a healthcare related subject or a portfolio of equivalent demonstrable experience

  Experience and Knowledge

  Essential

  • Previous care experience in a health or social care setting

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Knowledge of care and related procedures, clinical observations, relevant legislation
  • Completion of a competency-based programme or equivalent relevant experience
  • Level 3 qualification in a healthcare related subject or a portfolio of equivalent demonstrable experience

  Experience and Knowledge

  Essential

  • Previous care experience in a health or social care setting

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

  Northumbria Way

  Cramlington

  NE23 6NZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

  Northumbria Way

  Cramlington

  NE23 6NZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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