Locum Registered Nurse - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Role Overview

Locum Registered Nurse – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at King's College Hospital London. This position provides critical care to premature and sick newborns around the clock, while offering support to parents throughout their hospital experience.

Role Purpose

Deliver compassionate, evidence-based critical care to neonatal patients and their families, ensuring secure treatment delivery through skilled nursing practice, family education, and collaborative teamwork with physicians and nurse practitioners.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care & Clinical Management

• Provide round-the-clock care to premature, feeding and growing babies.
• Monitor vital signs and attend to basic needs including feeding, administration of oral supplements, hygiene and kangaroo care.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient needs on an ongoing basis.
• Formulate nursing plans and evaluate the effectiveness of treatments.
• Deliver high-standard evidence-based care aligned with Dubai Health Authority (DHA) guidelines.
• Uphold high standards of care in the NICU department.

Procedures & Technical Skills

• Perform intravenous line insertion, blood extraction via venepuncture and capillary heel prick for laboratory tests.
• Insert nasogastric and orogastric tubes, perform gastric wash, colostomy care and colostomy bag changes.
• Perform arterial line blood sampling and calibration of arterial lines.
• Handle central lines such as umbilical lines and long lines using proper aseptic techniques.
• Assist NICU physicians in medical procedures and treatments including central line insertion, intubation and lumbar puncture.
• Operate specialized medical equipment such as ventilator, nitric oxide machine, cerebral function monitor and therapeutic cooling machine.

Medication Management

• Review medications ordered by physician for appropriateness.
• Prepare medications under aseptic technique.
• Administer medications as prescribed.

Family Support & Communication

• Comfort anxious parents and provide explanation about plan of care and patient condition.
• Ensure all patient parents are updated regularly with accurate information presented in a sensitive and understandable way.
• Offer support to parents and family members.
• Educate parents on at-home care of their newborn.
• Support parents during breastfeeding and bottle feeding.

Qualifications & Experience

• UAE Medical Health Authority License (DHA).
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing or Degree in Nursing with minimum two years course duration.
• Registration as a Registered Nurse from Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand or Australia.
• Minimum two years of experience working in a hospital or similar setting.
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program Certified.
• Demonstrable ongoing and active Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent patient care delivery.
• Good computer knowledge.
• Highly self-motivated with high internal work standards; sets attainable goals; seeks continuous improvement and measures progress against targets.
• Flexibility to adapt and achieve objectives within constantly changing situations and environments.
• Communication skills to relate and communicate with patients and staff at all levels and from different professions.
• Problem-solving skills to respond to unexpected issues, provide first-line response and identify appropriate sources of secondary support.
• Ability to maintain professional and personal credibility across all staff groups.
• Multitasks well in a fast-paced workplace.