Deputy Sister Neonatal Unit

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization in Ipswich is seeking a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse for their Neonatal Unit. The successful candidate will manage and develop a nursing team, providing clinical leadership and ensuring high-quality care for neonates and their families. Key qualifications include neonatal training, strong communication skills, and a commitment to collaborative family-focused care. The role offers flexible working options, training, and a generous pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Passionate, highly motivated and experienced neonatal trained nurses.
• Ability to manage and develop a nursing team.
• Commitment to upholding values and delivering high quality care.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the existing nursing team.
• Provide professional and clinical leadership.
• Deliver high quality, safe and cost-effective care for babies and their families.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Neonatal training

Leadership skills

Job description

Job Overview

As a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse in our Neonatal Unit, you will effectively manage and develop our existing nursing team, providing professional and clinical leadership in the delivery of high quality, safe and cost effective care of babies and their families.

Responsibilities

This post includes shift work with internal rotation to night duty and may occasionally involve some cross cover for Children's Ward.

Qualifications

This demanding role requires passionate, highly motivated and experienced neonatal trained nurses with excellent communication skills who wish to continue to develop their clinical and leadership skills, delivering high quality care to neonates and their families.

As a team, we are committed to recruiting staff who uphold our values and can deliver care putting babies at the heart of everything we do, with an emphasis on working in partnership with the families to provide the best possible experience and outcomes.

As a unit, we are dedicated to recruiting staff who uphold our values and can deliver excellent care putting babies at the heart of everything we do, with an emphasis on working in partnership with the families to provide the best possible experience and outcomes.

Benefits & Development

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

About ESNEFT

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

Time Matters Initiative

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.