Neonatal Nurse - SCBU and Transitional Care
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced Neonatal Nurse to join the Neonatal Unit and Transitional Care at Warwick Hospital. You will be responsible for leading and coordinating the team to deliver high-standard, family-integrated care to babies and their families. The unit is a level 1 unit with 11 cots, and the Transitional Care Unit has 4 cots. You will work across both areas, ensuring quality services and operational systems are maintained.
Key responsibilities
- Lead and co-ordinate the team to maintain and deliver a high standard of family integrated care to all babies and their families.
- Be responsible for both SCBU and TC, ensuring maintenance of quality services and operational systems.
- Provide clinical leadership for ward teams to facilitate high standard, evidence-based individualised nursing care.
- Contribute to the planning, monitoring and control of Ward resources, assisting the Ward Manager to keep expenditure within budgets.
- Ensure National and Safeguarding Children guidelines are adhered to at all times.
- Attend annual IPR and complete a personal development plan, taking responsibility for own professional development.
Essential criteria
- First level RN/RM/RSCN
- Diploma / Degree in Professional Nursing studies NMC registered
- Neonatal intensive care course
- Evidence of continuous professional development, NLS 4 yearly
- IT Skills/ Knowledge of Lorenzo
- 2 years recent experience in Neonatal care
- Recent ICU experience including qualification
- Demonstrates knowledge of evidence based practices
- Demonstrates ability to perform wide range of clinical skills
- Demonstrates understanding of clinical audit and clinical effectiveness
- Demonstrates understanding of resource management
- Demonstrates a good understanding of Risk Management processes
- Demonstrates knowledge of current issues within NHS
- Able to effectively plan and delegate duties
- Able to manage personal time effectively
- Demonstrates belief in practising family integrated care
- Ability to recognise potential clinical problems and instigate a satisfactory solution
- Able to work as a decisive, supportive, innovative & proactive team member
- Can demonstrate possession of excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to remain calm and influence the team at all times
- Is committed to and demonstrates ability to teach successfully
- Able to adapt to changing circumstances and demonstrates ability to influence change successfully
- Shows initiative: able to think positively and stimulate high clinical standards within a progressive team climate
- Able to achieve individual and team objectives in timely manner
- Work a fully flexible rota and be available to cover staffing shortfalls if required.
- To rotate to night duty if required
Desirable criteria
- Mentoring & Assessors Qualification
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 3d ago · Closes in 12d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Job summary
Are you a Neonatal Nurse with experience of working within a Neonatal unit, who is looking for a new and exciting challenge with the opportunity to enhance your leadership, management and professional development? Why not consider joining our Neonatal Unit and Transitional Care at Warwick Hospital and let us help facilitate your professional journey.
We are a level 1 unit with 11 cots. About 3,400 babies a year are born at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation with 350-400 babies being admitted to SCBU. The Transitional care Unit has 4 cots. You will work over both SCBU and TC.
We pride ourselves on delivering specific individualised family integrated care and you will need to demonstrate how you ensure this through your work.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
To lead and co-ordinate the team to maintain and deliver a high standard of family integrated care to all babies and their families in accordance with the ward philosophy. To be responsible for both SCBU and TC.
To ensure maintenance of quality services and operational systems at all time and deputise ward manger in their absence.
About us
**_Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us impro
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