Lead Nurse/Midwife for Neonatal Transitional Care

Job overview

The overriding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

To work as the Lead Nurse, to lead and work alongside the ward leaders in providing high standards of holistic transitional care, ensuring that it is evidence based and compliant with best practice recommendations for transitional care services (TC.)

The Neonatal Transitional Care Lead plays a pivotal role in delivering and leading high-quality, safe, and compassionate care for newborns who require additional support at birth but do not need admission to a neonatal unit. This includes babies with needs such as temperature regulation, feeding support, treatment for jaundice or hypoglycaemia, or those exposed to maternal substance use.

The post-holder will lead the development and coordination of the transitional care service, working closely with maternity, neonatal, and community teams to ensure seamless, family-centred care that keeps mothers and babies together wherever clinically appropriate.

Main duties of the job

To inspire a shared sense of purpose

Provide clinical leadership

Support the provision of the service and service delivery

Infant feeding support

Role related risk management

Involvement in training and education

Multidisciplinary Liaison

Resource/management planning

Responsibility for patient care

Policy and service development and implementation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification