Neonatal Unit Sister
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 04/10/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced neonatal intensive care sister/charge nurse to join a supportive team at the Royal London Hospital. It offers significant opportunities for learning, development, and career growth within a tertiary level neonatal unit. The post involves caring for sick neonates, from extreme prematurity to term gestation, providing surgical and medical interventions. You will develop your portfolio and gain experience within a large, diverse team, caring for critically ill babies and experiencing the joy of their discharge home.
Key responsibilities
- Provide support to members of the neonatal team.
- Carry responsibility for the assessment of care needs.
- Develop, implement, and evaluate programmes of care and set standards.
- Deliver education and training programmes, including mandatory training, clinical, and enhanced skills within Neonatology.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse, Children's Nurse or Midwife
- Mentorship and assessment in the clinical area or equivalent
- Neonatal course (all modules)
- Neonatal experience at staff nurse level in intensive care or local neonatal unit.
- Proven professional competence.
- Awareness of research and audit
- Evidence of continuing education in relevant field of practice.
- Knowledge of NMC working codes for medications, documentation, conduct and professionalism
- Good level of skill in computer usage - able to use NHS data bases, input data and retrieve information.
- Awareness of current issues and reforms in the NHS and neonatal services.
- Awareness of the Toolkit for high quality neonatal services.
- Excellent understanding of safeguarding issues.
- Internal rotation and shift working
- Excellent communication skills.
- Able to present and contribute at multidisciplinary meeting.
Desirable criteria
- Neonatal Life Support
- Experience of good budgetary control and efficient use of resources.
- Desire for service improvement and efficiencies.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Barts Health NHS Trust
Neonatal Unit Sister
The closing date is 04 October 2026
Job summary
We are recruiting for an experienced neonatal intensive care sister/charge nurse to join our friendly and supportive team at the Royal London Hospital.
This post has great opportunity for learning, development and career growth. Learn to develop your skills and increase your knowledge by becoming an experienced tertiary level neonatal nurse, caring for a range of sick neonates from both the extreme prematurity to term gestation, providing surgical and medical interventions to maintain these precious tiny lives.This career path will allow you to develop your portfolio, experience working within a large friendly diverse team, always willing to share and teach, caring for some of the sickest babies but experiencing the joy of seeing them discharged to home with family.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide support to members of the neonatl team and carries responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programme of care and setting standards. This will include the delivery of education and training programmes which incorporate mandatory training, clinical and enhanced skill within Neonatology.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcar
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