Sister/Charge Nurse - PANDR (Neonatal)

The Methodist Church in Britain; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development opportunities

Flexible working options

On-site parking

Leisure facilities on-site

Staff break space

Job summary

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a sister or charge nurse for the PaNDR neonatal team. The role focuses on critical care for newborns and children up to 16, with transfers at referring hospitals and in ambulances. Leadership, governance and team collaboration are central to the post.

You will provide direct clinical care, supervise a multidisciplinary team, and contribute to service development and governance within the PaNDR network.

Qualifications

• Neonatal Critical Care qualification required.
• Teaching or mentorship qualification desirable.
• Neonatal Life Support qualification required.
• Safeguarding level 3 (A) required.
• NMC registration and first level registration essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical care to infants requiring emergency and elective transfer.
• Deliver expert critical care to neonates and children up to 16 during transfers and at referring hospitals or in ambulances.
• Lead and work within a team to deliver a safe, high-quality PaNDR service for babies, families and staff.
• Collaborate across PaNDR teams while maintaining your clinical focus within neonatal care.

Education

Neonatal Critical Care qualification

Teaching or mentorship qualification

Neonatal Life Support Course

Safeguarding level 3 (A)

NMC registration

First Level Registration

Job description

A sister or charge nurse post with the neonatal team of the PaNDR retrieval service, which covers the East of England for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The job is critical care for newborns and children up to 16, delivered during emergency and planned transfers at the referring hospital and in the ambulance. Shift leadership, team working and service governance are central to the role. Visa sponsorship is not available, and candidates need the right to work for at least six months from the start.

What the job involves

• Provide direct clinical care to infants requiring emergency and elective transfer
• Give expert critical care to neonates and children up to 16 with medical and surgical conditions, at the referring hospital and in the ambulance
• Use team working and leadership to deliver the service safely and effectively for staff, parents and babies
• Work within your clinical speciality while collaborating with the other PaNDR teams

What’s required

Qualifications

• Neonatal Critical Care qualification
• Teaching or mentorship qualification
• Neonatal Life Support Course
• Safeguarding level 3 (A)

Registration & licences

• NMC registration
• First Level Registration

Experience

• Tertiary level neonatal nursing experience
• Shift leader experience
• Transferring infants between departments internally
• Involvement in governance processes that develop and measure a service

Skills & knowledge

• Awareness of professional issues
• Knowledge of team working dynamics
• Emotional intelligence
• Organised and calm under pressure
• Effective team member

Other

• Taking responsibility and using feedback to improve the service
• Basic IT skills

Nice to have

• Enhanced Nursing Skills Qualification (ENP)
• Degree in a relevant health-related subject
• Leadership qualification
• Experience of surgical neonatal nursing
• Transferring infants externally
• NHS experience
• Knowledge of neonatal transport developments and the national strategic agenda
• Budgetary skills and intermediate IT skills (AI)

What’s offered

• Development opportunities, preceptorship and mentoring programmes
• Research opportunities
• Flexible working options such as part-time, job-share, term-time and flexible start and finish times
• Reduced-cost Stagecoach bus travel, and free Park and Ride and train-station routes
• Subsidised on-site parking for eligible staff
• Reduced-cost hot food available 24/7 on campus
• Staff break space with free tea and coffee
• On-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries