Neonatal Senior Sister

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Frimley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking an experienced neonatal nurse to lead their team at the neonatal unit. The role involves ensuring high-quality care, supporting nursing staff, and collaborating with a practice development team. Candidates must have valid NMC registration and strong leadership abilities, with an emphasis on infection control and quality initiatives. The organization offers a supportive environment focused on staff development and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

First-class development opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Comprehensive staff training programs

Qualifications

• Experienced neonatal nurse with strong leadership skills.
• NMC registration is mandatory for all nursing staff.
• Knowledge of infection prevention and control standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support nursing staff to ensure up-to-date practices.
• Develop team and individual performance through training.
• Implement quality initiatives in neonatal care.
• Maintain compliance with infection control standards.

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic neonatal nurse to lead our team at Frimley Park Neonatal unit. You would be working closely with the neonatal Matron and practice development team to support our staff to deliver the highest standard of neonatal care.

The Neonatal Unit at Frimley Park is a Local Neonatal Unit made up of 2 Intensive Care, 5 High Dependency and 8 Special Care cots. The unit cares for babies over 27 weeks gestation and stabilises any baby under that gestation, to be transferred to a tertiary hospital/ NICU.

Our team aspires to provide high quality and evidence-based clinical, developmental and family integrated care in order to ensure the best outcomes for our babies and their families.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong visible leadership to all staff within the department and across the organisation, ensuring that nursing practice is up to date, evidence based and cost effective.
• Develop the neonatal team, individuals and self to enhance performance, ensuring that staff training needs to meet organisational objectives are pursued through the principles of appraisal and knowledge and skills framework.
• Be responsible for own professional registration and ensure that all nurses working in the neonatal unit have valid NMC registration and practise in accordance with the NMC code, standards of conduct and in accordance with Trust policy.
• Provide leadership for the implementation of quality initiatives.
• Foster a strong team focus on high quality, clinically effective healthcare that meets our babies and families' needs as embedded in unit culture.
• Create and maintain a strong culture of Infection Prevention & Control awareness & practice and ensure compliance with systems in place to measure infection control and prevention standards, share good practice and develop and review action plans to address deficiencies.

Working Environment & Benefits

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 a wide range of professional, management, leadership and clinical skills training.

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.

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