Neonatal Nurse - SCBU and Transitional Care

Neonatal Nurse - SCBU and Transitional Care

The closing date is 25 January 2026

Are you a Neonatal Nurse with experience of working within a Neonatal unit, who is looking for a new and exciting challenge with the opportunity to enhance your leadership, management and professional development? Why not consider joining our Neonatal Unit and Transitional Care at Warwick Hospital and let us help facilitate your professional journey.

We are a level 1 unit with 11 cots. About 3,400 babies a year are born at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation with 350-400 babies being admitted to SCBU. The Transitional care Unit has 4 cots. You will work over both SCBU and TC.

We pride ourselves on delivering specific individualised family integrated care and you will need to demonstrate how you ensure this through your work.

To lead and co-ordinate the team to maintain and deliver a high standard of family integrated care to all babies and their families in accordance with the ward philosophy. To be responsible for both SCBU and TC.

To ensure maintenance of quality services and operational systems at all time and deputise ward manager in their absence.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'.

Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Promote a baby focused, family centred ward environment at all times.

Promote family involvement in care planning, ensuring parents and carers are kept informed of treatment and progress, together with any necessary family education.

Sound knowledge of local & national Child Protection procedures.

Provide clinical leadership for ward teams in order to facilitate a high standard of evidence based individualised nursing care from admission to discharge.

Provide clinical leadership for the care of high dependency and Intensive care babies during the acute phase and when stabilised.

Liaise with other Neonatal centres and Community teams to provide effective shared care as required.

Act as a resource providing clinical information for other areas, throughout the organisation where children are treated.

Act as advocate for all inpatient babies and ward attenders.

Act as key worker as required to provide specific expertise & leadership in identified areas.

Provide telephone advice for parents requesting information and support.

Contribute to the planning, monitoring and control of Ward resources, assisting the Ward Manager to keep expenditure within budgets.

Assist the Ward Manager to optimize nursing resources by even distribution of staff annual leave and matching skill mix to workload.

Provide information and advice for action towards achieving Organisational objectives.

Attend Ward, Divisional and Corporate meetings on behalf of Ward Manager, as required, in order to disseminate information up and down the Divisional line management structure.

Assist the Ward Manager to collect and organise ward information for incorporation into the divisional service plan.

Contribute to the recruitment and selection of quality staff for the Ward, identifying future job requirements for profiling to complement the Ward teams.

Contribute to the planning, organisation…