# Neonatal Unit Sister

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust
- **Location:** St Bartholomew's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse (neonatal)
- **Salary:** £47951.00 to £56863.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-04T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-18T15:37:18.031Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8307972
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8307972?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

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.

### 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 documents, please view the attachment/s below.

### 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

### Other

**Essential**

- Internal rotation and shift working
- Excellent communication skills.
- Able to present and contribute at multidisciplinary meeting.

### Skills

**Essential**

- 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.

**Desirable**

- Experience of good budgetary control and efficient use of resources.
- Desire for service improvement and efficiencies.

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge of NMC working codes for medications, documentation, conduct and professionalism

### Experience

**Essential**

- 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.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Nurse, Children’s Nurse or Midwife
- Mentorship and assessment in the clinical area or equivalent
- Neonatal course (all modules)

**Desirable**

- Neonatal Life Support

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 776.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10627990)
- [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119)
- [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446)
- [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120)

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