Neonatal Junior Sister​/Charge Nurse

Job Overview Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse – Neonatal Unit

37.5 hours per week | Permanent | Based at Frimley Park Hospital Are you an experienced Neonatal Nurse looking to take the next step in your career? We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate, motivated, and enthusiastic nurse to join our dedicated Neonatal team at Frimley Park Hospital in a senior leadership role.

Our Neonatal Unit is committed to delivering outstanding, evidence-based care with a strong focus on clinical excellence, developmental care, and family integrated care to achieve the very best outcomes for babies and their families.
We are seeking a Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to become part of our friendly and supportive leadership team. Working alongside the Matron for Neonatal Services, Senior Sister, and fellow Junior Sisters, you will play a key role in providing visible leadership, supporting staff development, and helping to maintain the highest standards of neonatal care.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to further develop your leadership skills within a progressive and compassionate neonatal service, while making a meaningful difference to the lives of babies and their families every day.
If you are committed to high-quality neonatal care and thrive in a collaborative team environment, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Co-ordinate and manage the unit in the absence of Senior Sister.
• Act as a resource in Neonatal nursing care.
• Provide quality care for the babies and their families.
• Teach and develop more junior staff.
• Deliver highly specialised Neonatal care, which includes intensive and high dependency care.
• To provide specialist knowledge to ensure a practical and safe working environment and make appropriate changes.
• Act as a resource for nursing and medical staff to ensure appropriate Neonatal nursing care.
• The ability to provide nursing care for all neonates whatever their needs without direct supervision.
• To ensure complete and safe record keeping complying with Neonatal, Trust Policies and national guidance.
• To facilitate early discharge planning with the multidisciplinary team.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo

For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

Essential criteria

• NMC Registration.
• Registered RN/RN child, RM or RSCN.
• Neonatal specialist training ENB 405 or equivalent.
• Children's safeguarding training level 2.

• NLS qualification
• Children's safeguarding training level 3

Essential criteria

• Clinical practice in Neonatal nursing experience.
• Neonatal Toolkit experience.

• Management experience

Essential criteria

• Computer literacy and numeracy.
• Teaching Skills.
• Clinical Audit Skills.
• Evidence of leadership skills.
• Knowledge of current issues in Neonatology.

• Awareness of specific needs of local population.
• Neonatal networks.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving…