Nursery Nurse (Transitional Care)

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare institution in London seeks a Nursery Nurse to provide high-standard care for babies in transitional care. Responsibilities include coordinating care, administering medications, and supporting families in a warm environment. The ideal candidate has experience in hospital settings and holds a relevant childcare diploma. This role offers a salary of £33,094 to £36,195 per annum (pro-rata) with opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a hospital.
• Ability to assess and evaluate nursing care.
• Experience on a Neonatal Unit or Transitional care unit.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care for babies requiring transitional care.
• Administer oral medication and perform necessary observations.
• Support breastfeeding and liaise with the Midwifery Team.

Skills

Child care

Teamwork

Communication

Education

NNEB/Diploma in Child Care

First Aid

CPR

Care Certificate

Job description

Overview

Go back St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Nursery Nurse (Transitional Care)

The closing date is 13 October 2025

To provide the highest standard of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of individualised patient care to babies receiving transitional care on the postnatal ward.

To promote a friendly and supportive atmosphere for parents and relatives in which they can learn to care for their babies.

To utilise a variety of strategies to communicate effectively: with the babies' family/carers, the multidisciplinary team, other departments within the Trust and pertinent agencies outside the organisation.

The post holder will play a key role in developing the transitional care unit based on the postnatal ward.

This will involve working within a team of neonatal staff, Band 7 and Band 5, coordinating and communicating with the midwifery team.

Main duties of the job

• Oral medication administration.
• Performing observations on babies as required.
• Taking of routine bloods and gases as required.
• Supporting with lumbar punctures.
• Breastfeeding support.
• Liaising with Midwifery Team regarding discharges.
• Liaising with NNU regarding transfers of babies either to/from the unit or postnatal ward.
• Completing BadgerNet summaries.
• To coordinate the care of babies requiring transitional care on the postnatal ward.
• Ensure that parents are updated on their baby's progress, being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity, and privacy, and always ensure a friendly environment.
• To be an advocate for the infant and to promote good liaisons and effective communication with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To ensure appropriate documentation of care is in accordance with NMC guidelines.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Previous applicant need not to apply

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NNEB/Diploma in Child Care
• First Aid
• CRP
• Care Certificate

Knoweldge and Experience

• Experience of working in a hospital
• Experience of team working
• General awareness of issues relating to new-born baby care
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care according to individual needs
• Experience of working on a Neonatal Unit or Transitional care unit.

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.

Employer name

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£33,094 to £36,195 a yearper annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)