Lead Nurse / Midwife for Neonatal Transitional Care

Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in the UK is seeking a Lead Nurse to provide high standards of holistic transitional care for newborns. This role requires strong clinical leadership and coordination of services while ensuring family-centered care for mothers and their babies. The successful candidate will lead a dedicated team, manage risks, and support training and education initiatives within a dynamic healthcare environment, contributing to significant improvements and transformational projects. Join us and be part of a warm and supportive community.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading high-quality, safe, compassionate care.
• Ability to inspire a shared sense of purpose and provide clinical leadership.
• Knowledge of transitional care services.

Responsibilities

• Inspire a shared sense of purpose within the team.
• Lead the development and coordination of transitional care services.
• Ensure seamless, family-centered care for mothers and babies.
• Provide clinical leadership and support service delivery.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Multidisciplinary liaison

Infant feeding support

Risk management

Job description

A Vacancy at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.

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.

Key Responsibilities

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

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 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.

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

This advert closes on Monday 2 Feb 2026.