Band 8a Neonatal Nurse Specialist

Overview

The Northwest Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (ODN), in partnership with Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity, is seeking an exceptional Band 8a Neonatal Nurse Specialist to lead and develop care for neonates with complex medical needs (CMC) across the region. As the Roald Dahl Neonatal CMC Nurse Specialist, you will provide expert clinical leadership and specialist nursing care for neonates with complex, life-limiting, or long-term conditions across the Northwest Neonatal ODN.

• Act as a clinical expert and system leader for neonatal medical complexity.
• Build trusted relationships with families from the earliest stages, including antenatal diagnosis where appropriate.
• Bridge neonatal and children's services, ensuring safe, compassionate, and seamless transitions of care.
• Lead network-wide education, quality improvement, audit, and clinical effectiveness initiatives.
• Collaborate across neonatal units, maternity, paediatrics, community services, social care, and voluntary sector partners.
• Champion family-centred, coordinated, and compassionate care, aligned with NHS values and the Roald Dahl nursing model.

We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.

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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care with a presence in community outreach sites. Our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at Sunflower House.

We are one of Europe’s largest and busiest children’s hospitals, with paediatric services at community sites across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated facility. We lead research in children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology, and operate the Innovation Hub for collaboration with industry.

We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. We aim to make children feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow, and to support families as a unit. We currently have more than 4,000 staff and are a teaching and training hospital, providing education to medical, nursing and allied health professionals.

We warmly welcome applications from all sections of the community, and particularly encourage applicants from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

Our staff are rewarded with a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes