Senior Staff Nurse - Neonatal Unit

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospital in London is seeking experienced neonatal nurses to join their dynamic team. The role offers opportunities for professional development and involves providing high-quality care to infants in a busy neonatal unit. Successful candidates will be part of a supportive environment that values clinical excellence and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience mentoring and assessing pre and post reg students.
• Previous post registration experience within the relevant specialty.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty.
• Responsible for assessment of care needs and planning programmes of care.
• Provide leadership, support and guidance to staff.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Patient Care

Clinical Governance

Education

BSc/1st degree (health related)

Mentorship/Teaching Qualification

Qualified in Speciality (NICU/PICU)

Job description

Main area Neonatal Unit Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: Full time and part time hours offered. Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Internal rotation to night shifts, weekends and Public Holidays Minimum part time hours are 23 per week = two shifts.) Job ref 196-NM12882

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Thomas' Hospital Town London Salary £44,806 - £53,134 p.a. inc HCA (pro rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 08/06/2025 23:59

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

Take your Neonatal Nursing career to the next level.

We are looking for ambitious senior staff nurses to join the 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 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.

“This advert is open to all applicants with an active Nursing and Midwifery Council Personal Identification number (PIN) .

Interview date: week commencing 16th June 2025

Main duties of the job

We have fantastic opportunities for experienced neonatal nurses who are looking to develop their careers. We are a tertiary referral centre incorporating 20 NICU, 12 HDU and 14 special care cots. We provide an unrivalled breadth of experience, caring for babies with surgical, cardiac, neurological, renal and metabolic disorders as well as those born prematurely.

We provide excellent development opportunities for Band 6 Neonatal Nurses. In addition we have a structured Band 6 Management Program were we encourage and provide support for experienced Band 6 nurses to develop their leadership skills in taking charge of each of the clinical areas, and prepare them for the challenge of the next step in their career.

The post holder is responsible for assessment of care needs of patients, planning programmes of care, implementation and evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision.

The post holder will be a key member in relation to the development of practice on the ward. They will be working independently/autonomously and at times without direct supervision, accountable for their own professional actions. Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centred care principles.

Working for our organisation

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.

At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important life is, and how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance of responsibilities in and out of work. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical and Patient Care

• Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty 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. This includes 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. To interpret information and take 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.
• To provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning delivery and evaluation of individualised care.
• Is wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve his / her knowledge and professional competence.
• Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advance clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursing procedures to area.
• Ensure that sensitive patient records are stored appropriately.
• Ensures 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 in relation to 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.

Person specification

Professional/ Statutory Registration

• RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.

Qualifications/Education

• BSc/ 1st degree (health related) or equivalent, qualification/training and experience.
• Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
• Mentorship/Teaching Qualification
• Qualified in Speciality (NICU/PICU)
• Experience mentoring and assessing pre and post reg students

Skills/Knowledge/Ability

• Demonstrates specialist expertise underpinned by theory acquired through CPD
• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues. Knowledge of evidence based practice.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives.
• In depth drugs knowledge
• Ability to administer prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products
• Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
• An understanding of audit and research based nursing practice.
• Good communication skills and ability to deal with sensitive information. To include dealing with distressed relatives, care of terminally ill & other challenging situations
• Ability to organise and plan own time and that of junior staff and learners.
• Demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management and how this effects their role and the department
• Experience and understanding of the principles of Family Integrated Care
• Understanding and demonstration of working as part of a multi disciplinary team

Experience

• Previous post registration experience within the relevant specialty
• Experienced and competent in the management of patients within the speciality
• Experience of teaching/assessing/ supervising others in a clinical setting.
• Supervision of junior staff
• Experiencing of co-ordinating a shift

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Patrick Desmonde Job title Matron Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02071884039 Additional information

Additional contacts:

Alex Phillips - Lead Nurse

[e-mail]

Justien Duncan - Matron

[e-mail]

020 7188 4038

We strongly encourage and welcome informal visits to the Neonatal Unit.

Our dedicated and talented staff make it their mission to provide outstanding care for our patients.

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