# Lead Nurse- Neonatology > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-nurse-neonatology/2c28b56f-96d2-4214-988e-2ab907f9f8a4 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-nurse-neonatology/2c28b56f-96d2-4214-988e-2ab907f9f8a4.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** St Mary's Hospital (The Bays); Hammersmith Hospitals - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £75,328 - £86,114 pa Inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-19T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-22T12:20:41.971Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8387436 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8387436?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced and inspiring nurse leader ready to shape the future of neonatal care? We are seeking a Band 8b Lead Nurse to lead our neonatal services across two sites: the Level 2 unit at St Mary’s Hospital (SMH) and the Level 3 unit at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital (QCCH). This is a unique opportunity to make a lasting difference to babies, families and teams while delivering safe, high-quality and family-centred care. We are looking for a credible, compassionate leader with substantial leadership experience. Neonatal expertise is welcomed, but experience gained in high-dependency or other acute clinical settings may also be highly transferable. You will join a supportive, ambitious and high-performing Directorate where your ideas, expertise and leadership will have real influence. With responsibility across two distinct neonatal units, you will enjoy a varied and rewarding portfolio, work alongside committed multidisciplinary teams and help shape improvements for babies, families and staff. This role will suit a collaborative leader who is energised by challenge, values innovation and wants to make a visible difference. ### Main duties of the job - Provide a visible, credible and authoritative nursing leadership presence across both sites - Champion responsive, compassionate and consistently high-quality neonatal care aligned with national and Trust priorities - Shape service development, quality improvement and workforce planning across the neonatal pathway - Create an inclusive culture that supports staff engagement, wellbeing, retention and professional development - Provide strong oversight of clinical governance, service performance, financial management and operational efficiency - Work in partnership with the senior triumvirate to deliver strategic priorities and Trust-wide nursing and midwifery ambitions - Lead neonatal governance and support the effective delivery of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ### 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 ### Skills **Essential** - Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit - Organisation and management skills - Ability to work effectively under pressure **Desirable** - Involvement in committees external to the Trust - Presented at national conferences ### Education **Essential** - RN or RSCN - Educated to degree level in relevant subject area - Relevant management experience **Desirable** - Master’s degree in a relevant subject area - Management course/qualification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working within Neonatology - Leading and developing a team - Budget management - Quality assurance - Change management **Desirable** - Patient Safety Incident Response Framework - Experience of change management/implementation of practice change - Participated in nurse research ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 301.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10717036) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirements (pdf, 136.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10717037) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.