Lead Nurse / Midwife for Neonatal Transitional Care

NHS; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in King's Lynn is seeking a Lead Nurse/Midwife for Neonatal Transitional Care. This pivotal role involves providing high-quality care for newborns requiring support, leading service development, and ensuring compliance with best practices. Candidates must be registered with the NMC and possess relevant qualifications in Midwifery or Neonates, alongside Band 6 level experience. The position offers a salary of £38,682 to £46,580 per year and requires strong leadership and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Registered with the NMC is required.
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification or experience.
• Qualified in speciality (Midwifery or Neonates) or equivalent.
• Evidence of relevant further study or training.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and support service delivery.
• Manage patient care in the neonatal transitional care setting.
• Support infant feeding and role-related risk management.
• Engage in policy and service development.

Skills

Highly developed communication skills

Ability to apply evidence‑based practice

Awareness of current neonatal issues

Evidence of multidisciplinary working

Knowledge of risk management processes

Education

Registered with the NMC

Recognised teaching/mentorship qualification

Qualified in Midwifery or Neonates

Relevant further study or training

Job description

Lead Nurse/Midwife for Neonatal Transitional Care

The closing date is 02 February 2026

The overriding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

To work as the Lead Nurse, to lead and work alongside the ward leaders in providing high standards of holistic transitional care, ensuring that it is evidence based and compliant with best practice recommendations for transitional care services (TC.)

The Neonatal Transitional Care Lead plays a pivotal role in delivering and leading high-quality, safe, and compassionate care for newborns who require additional support at birth but do not need admission to a neonatal unit. This includes babies with needs such as temperature regulation, feeding support, treatment for jaundice or hypoglycaemia, or those exposed to maternal substance use.

The post-holder will lead the development and coordination of the transitional care service, working closely with maternity, neonatal, and community teams to ensure seamless, family‑centred care that keeps mothers and babies together wherever clinically appropriate.

Main duties of the job

• To inspire a shared sense of purpose
• To provide clinical leadership
• To support the provision of the service and service delivery
• Infant feeding support
• Role related risk management
• Involvement in training and education
• Multidisciplinary Liaison
• Responsibility for patient care
• Policy and service development and implementation

About us

There's never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We're working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state‑of‑the‑art hospital due to open in 2031/32 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we've ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper‑based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined‑up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community‑based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as 'Good', and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award‑winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.

Job responsibilities

For further information about this role please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Qualifications/training and professional development

• Registered with the NMC
• Recognised teaching/mentorship qualification or experience
• Qualified in speciality (Midwifery or Neonates) or equivalent course relevant to the role
• Evidence of having completed relevant further study or training

Experience

• Band 6 level experience within a Neonatal Unit or Transitional Care ward
• Neonatal advanced life support training
• Ability to manage staff and manage a change in service
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines effectively
• Experience/knowledge of staff appraisals, recruitment and absence management
• Evidence of practice or policy change arising from audit

Skills, abilities and knowledge

• Highly developed communication skills in verbal and written format
• Ability to apply evidence‑based practice
• Awareness and understanding of current neonatal issues in relation to Transitional care services
• Evidence of multidisciplinary working
• Knowledge of risk management processes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearPer annum Pro rata