Neonatal Unit - Sister/Charge Nurse

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking an experienced Neonatal Unit Sister/Charge Nurse to join their dynamic team in London. This role offers a fantastic opportunity for professional growth and development within a supportive environment. You will care for critically ill neonates, implementing and evaluating care programs while also providing education and training to staff. With a commitment to excellence and innovation, this organization values inclusion and aims to provide the highest standards of patient care. If you are passionate about neonatal nursing and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with neonatal experience required.
• Mentorship and clinical assessment skills essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to neonatal team and assess care needs.
• Deliver education and training programmes in Neonatology.

Skills

Neonatal care

Mentorship

Clinical assessment

Computer skills

Budgetary control

Safeguarding issues

Education

Registered Nurse

Children’s Nurse

Neonatal course

Job description

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Neonatal Unit - Sister/Charge Nurse, London

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Client:

Barts Health NHS Trust

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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3

Posted:

08.05.2025

Expiry Date:

22.06.2025

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Job overview

We are recruiting for an experienced neonatal intensive care sister/charge nurse to join our friendly and supportive team at the Royal London Hospital.

This post has great opportunity for learning, development and career growth. Learn to develop your skills and increase your knowledge by becoming an experienced tertiary level neonatal nurse, caring for a range of sick neonates from both the extreme prematurity to term gestation, providing surgical and medical interventions to maintain these precious tiny lives.

This career path will allow you to develop your portfolio, experience working within a large friendly diverse team, always willing to share and teach, caring for some of the sickest babies but experiencing the joy of seeing them discharged to home with family.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide support to members of the neonatal team and carriesresponsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programme of care and setting standards. This will include the delivery of education and training programmes which incorporate mandatory training, clinical and enhanced skill within Neonatology.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, Children’s Nurse or Midwife
• Mentorship and assessment in the clinical area or equivalent
• Neonatal course (all modules)

Experience

• Neonatal experience at staff nurse level in intensive care or local neonatal unit.
• Proven professional competence.
• Awareness of research and audit
• Evidence of continuing education in relevant field of practice.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of NMC working codes for medications, documentation, conduct and professionalism

Skills

• Good level of skill in computer usage – able to use NHS data bases, input data and retrieve information.
• Awareness of current issues and reforms in the NHS and neonatal services
• Awareness of the Toolkit for high quality neonatal services.
• Excellent understanding of safeguarding issues.
• Experience of good budgetary control and efficient use of resources.
• Desire for service improvement and efficiencies.

Other

• Internal rotation and shift working
• Able to present and contribute at multidisciplinary meeting.