# Neonatal Outreach Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/neonatal-outreach-nurse/930edc26-ae6e-4961-af59-45fc72931606 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/neonatal-outreach-nurse/930edc26-ae6e-4961-af59-45fc72931606.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust - **Location:** Pinderfields Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (neonatal) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 to £48,117 a year - **Contract type:** Fixed-Term - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-09-20T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-07T10:35:13.069Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9377-26-0406 - **Application URL:** https://careers.midyorks.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?jobid=1444&source=JobtrainNHSJobs - **Employer website:** https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Neonatal Outreach Nurse at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. This is a fixed term post - 2 years contract. The primary aim of the role is to ensure that a high-quality Neonatal out reach care is delivered to neonates and their families. The Nurse will plan, deliver, and evaluate the care of Neonate and their families in the neonatal unit and home setting. As a Nurse, all activities provide opportunities for acting as a role model for staff. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the planning, delivery and evaluation of care to meet the personalised health and wellbeing care needs of patients, in line with the Trusts Values and Nursing & Midwifery Professional Framework This will be achieved through the core competencies/ dimensions of the role, clinical practice, and acting as the patient advocate. ### Main duties of the job - To assist staff, based on the Neonatal Unit and Transitional Care Unit, with early and appropriate discharge planning in accordance with the criteria for neonatal outreach care. - To provide a seamless timely discharge from the hospital to the home environment. - To provide on-going holistic care within the community setting for vulnerable neonates and their families. - To liaise with members of the primary health care team and other health care professionals to ensure the provision of appropriate seamless, on-going care. - To work effectively and efficiently as an Outreach team member as well as independently in the planning, assessment, implementation and evaluation of neonatal community care. - To plan, time manage and initiate a weekly schedule based on workload requirements, which will remain flexible, thus ensuring that individual family needs are met. - Prepare and receive reports from health care professionals, ensuring good communication and working links with all others. - Maintain accurate, legible and legal clinical records relevant to the care of the neonate in the community. - Participate in nurse led clinics when appropriate. - Develop enhanced skills in neonatal resuscitation with attendance at Trust and National Newborn Life Support courses. ### About us We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day. ### Details - Date posted: 07 September 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 6 - Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year - Contract: Fixed term - Duration: 2 years - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: 001433 - Job locations: Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DG, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities Qualifications Registered Nurse/ Midwife / BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent Qualification/training and experience in specialty Evidence of ongoing professional development Neonatal Life support NLS Experience Significant proven Neonatal qualification and intensive care experience Knowledge and Awareness Aware of own limitations The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trusts Values and Behaviours Skills and Abilities Lead, influence and motivate others. Demonstrate innovation in practice. Demonstrate a high level of personal and Professional autonomy and an understanding of professional accountability. Incorporate high-quality evidence in Neonatal care Develop and maintain positive working relationships. Personal attributes ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to satisfy all pre-employment screening checks - Able to access all Trust sites. - Good attendance record. ### Experience **Essential** - Significant proven Neonatal qualification and intensive care experience ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Nurse/ Midwife / BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent - Qualification/training and experience in specialty - Evidence of ongoing professional development **Desirable** - Neonatal Life support NLS - Evidence of competency teaching and assessing qualification - Vaccination and immunisation course ### Personal Attributes **Essential** - Demonstrates a professional manner. - Effective interpersonal skills - Ability to deal with difficult situations. - Optimistic - Energetic - Visionary - Motivate self and others. - Innovative - Decisive - Woman focused approach to care and services. - Good organisational and communication skills - And Flexible to the needs of the service ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Lead, influence and motivate others. - Demonstrate innovation in practice. - Demonstrate a high level of personal and Professional autonomy and an understanding of professional accountability. - Incorporate high-quality evidence in Neonatal care - Develop and maintain positive working relationships. - Learn senior responsibilities and deputise in managers absence **Desirable** - IT skills - Has experience of undertaking a wide variety of clinical skills ### Knowledge and Awareness **Essential** - Aware of own limitations - The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trusts Values and Behaviours - Awareness of the role of the Neonatal Outreach team ## Documents - [Job description and person specification (DOCX, KB)](https://careers.midyorks.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=5133&JobId=1444) ## 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.