Senior Staff Nurse - Neonatal Outreach Team | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greater London is looking for an experienced Senior Staff Nurse to join the Neonatal Outreach Nursing Team. This role involves delivering high-quality care to neonates at home, leading discharge planning, and supporting families. A strong background in neonatal nursing and NMC registration is required. The position offers flexible working arrangements to meet service needs.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive team environment

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in neonatal nursing required.
• Ability to work autonomously in a community setting.
• Strong clinical skills and understanding of neonatal care.

Responsibilities

• Leading discharge planning for neonatal patients.
• Providing follow-up care in home environments.
• Managing independent patient care as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical assessment

Effective communication

Independence

Education

Registered Nurse with NMC registration

Job description

New Year New Job ! Take your Neonatal Nursing career to the next level.

We are looking for ambitious senior staff nurses to join the Neonatal Outreach Nursing Team on the Neonatal Unit at the Evelina London Children's Hospital.

We are a large supportive neonatal team who take pride in the high standards of care that we deliver and this is clearly demonstrated in the positive outcomes of the infants that we care for.

We are one of the biggest and busiest neonatal units in the country with a well established Neonatal Outreach Team offering a 7 day service in the community and can offer a wealth of experience to enhance your career as a neonatal nurse.

Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in our hospitals and throughout our local community, continues to grow. We support families from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life.

We strive to recruit and retain staff who are motivated to develop and learn with us as we continually strive to ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe, and focused on women, children and their families.

We are delighted to offer outstanding opportunities for experienced neonatal nurses who are eager to further develop their careers within a community setting. Our tertiary referral centre comprises 20 NICU cots, 12 HDU cots, 14 Special Care cots and 8 Transitional Care cots, providing an exceptional range of clinical experience. We care for infants with complex surgical, cardiac, neurological, renal and metabolic conditions, in addition to those born prematurely.

As a member of the Neonatal Outreach Team, you will work as an autonomous practitioner, delivering high-quality specialist nursing care to neonates within their own homes. You will play a key role in facilitating early discharge, reducing length of stay, and preventing avoidable hospital admissions. In this role, you will also provide clinical supervision to colleagues and students, ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate care. You will consistently promote dignity, human rights, and person-centred principles in all aspects of practice.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are committed to supporting flexible working; we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Key responsibilities

• Leading timely and effective discharge planning
• Providing family-centred support and follow-up care in the home environment
• Working independently while contributing to a dynamic and supportive multidisciplinary team
• Collaborating closely with Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) and Transitional Care teams
• Assessing neonatal care needs, developing personalised care plans, and implementing and evaluating care without direct supervision

Clinical and Patient Care

• Independently manage a group of patients within the speciality whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care
• Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care, including history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations
• Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products
• Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the speciality, interpreting information and taking appropriate action and to lead others to do the same
• Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines
• Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines
• Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals
• Provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning delivery and evaluation of individualised care
• Be wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and take every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve professional competence
• Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advanced clinical skills and be responsible for carrying out specialist nursing procedures in the area
• Ensure that sensitive patient records are stored appropriately
• Ensure the cultural and spiritual needs of patients are recognised and accommodated within resources available
• Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management
• Participate in case conferences regarding the management of patients, ensuring the coordination of ongoing care
• Ensure staff take precautions to minimise the risk of cross infection in relation to the safe disposal of body fluids (including blood)
• A key member of the multidisciplinary team in supporting patients and their carers during the delivery of bad news such as caring for the terminally ill patients and the event of death

Please see attached Job Description for details of duties and responsibilities.

Closing date: 5th January 2026 at Midnight

Interview date: 14th January 2026

This advert closes on Monday 5 Jan 2026.