Neonatal Staff Nurse

Surgery, Women and Children's
NEONATAL UNIT - Staff Nurse (Permanent 36 hours)

Are you a registered nurse with neonatal experience, or someone ready to embrace a new and rewarding challenge in a specialist area? If so, we'd love to welcome you to our team.

We are a Level 2 Neonatal Unit, dedicated to delivering high-quality care to sick and preterm infants in partnership with their families. Our unit provides intensive care, high dependency, and special care, supported by a skilled team of Advanced Neonatal Practitioners, Clinical Educators, and a well-established Community Outreach Team that facilitates early discharge and care at home.

Whether you're experienced or just starting out in neonatal care, we'll support you every step of the way. You'll benefit from a comprehensive preceptorship and competency programme, along with access to specialty education and training to help you grow and thrive in your role.

To develop skills and knowledge in the care of special care babies and, with support and training, progress to caring for high dependency and intensive care babies through opportunities such as the Neonatal Foundation Course and Neonatal Intensive Care Course.

To manage and organise care for a group of babies and their families, prioritising according to need, and ensuring excellence in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.

To communicate effectively with families and carers, meeting information needs and supporting parental involvement in decision-making.

To perform clinical skills relevant to neonatal care and support the training, supervision and assessment of staff developing these skills.

To promote and support the provision of individualised care, ensuring accurate documentation is maintained for each baby.

To maintain effective communication within the multidisciplinary team and coordinate nursing care with awareness of staffing levels and skill mix.

To contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of new techniques and evidence-based neonatal practice, supporting audit, research activity and clinical governance.

• Registered Nurse Child / Adult Branch
• Evidence of professional development
• Teaching and Assessing in Practice course

• Commitment to evidence based practice
• Motivated to develop own skills and develop nursing practice
• Up to date knowledge of current nursing issues and NHS changes
• Research Awareness

• Caring attitude to patient care
• Able to cope with distressing or emotional situations
• Able to cope with unpredictable workload and change
• Effective verbal and written communication
• Demonstrates a responsible attitude to work

• Good organisational skills
• Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care
• Ability to organise, manage and prioritise workload
• Able to work flexible shift pattern
• Able to keep full and accurate records
• Leadership Skills

• Ability to support and supervise junior staff, students, and HCAs

• Ability to provide holistic care to patients
• Ability to problem solve

• Ability to assess, plan, implement & evaluate care

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.

£32,073 to £39,043 a year Pro Rata Per Annum