# Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse - Neonatal Unit

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Ipswich Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Charge nurse, Registered nurse, Midwife
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** 10 months (Fixed term/Secondment until 20th September 2027)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 28.45 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-18T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T11:36:51.495Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Ipswich/East_Suffolk_North_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Neonatal/Neonatal-v8352524
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8352524?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you an experienced Neonatal Nurse looking for a new challenge and/or career progression?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dedicated team caring for premature and sick babies for Band 6 Junior Sister.

You will have the opportunity to work and learn in diverse child focused environments. We will offer you the support of a committed team to advance your skills and to support your learning with access to development opportunities both internally and with our excellent links to local universities.

This post is fixed term/secondment contract until 20th September 2027 28.45 hours per week.

Proposed interview date: 5th November 2026

### Main duties of the job

As a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse in our Neonatal Unit, you will effectively manage and develop our existing nursing team, providing professional and clinical leadership in the delivery of high quality, safe and cost effective care of babies and their families.

This demanding role requires passionate, highly motivated and experienced neonatal trained nurses with excellent communication skills who wish to continue to develop their clinical and leadership skills, delivering high quality care to neonates and their families.

As a team, we are committed to recruiting staff who uphold our values and can deliver care putting babies at the heart of everything we do, with an emphasis on working in partnership with the families to provide the best possible experience and outcomes.

As a unit, we are dedicated to recruiting staff who uphold our values and can deliver excellent care putting babies at the heart of everything we do, with an emphasis on working in partnership with the families to provide the best possible experience and outcomes.

This post includes shift work with internal rotation to night duty and may occasionally involve some cross cover for Children's Ward.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see attached job description and person specification

### Applicant requirements

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.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Previous experience at Band 5
- Experience as shift leader at Band 5/6
- Clinical expertise within specialty
- Managing change
- Evidence of managing and improving the patient experience

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- RN / RM/ RN Child
- BSc Nursing / First degree
- Mentorship qualification / equivalent teaching qualification
- NLS certificate
- Neonatal Qualified in speciality

**Desirable**

- Undertaking current academic study

## Documents

- [jd and ps (pdf, 320.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10678048)
- [staff networks (pdf, 252.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724)
- [dbs information (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262)
- [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146)
- [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404)

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