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.

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.

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.

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.