Neonatal Sister/Charge Nurse: Sponsorship Available

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Job summary

Are you a dynamic and forward thinking neonatal Nurse? We have a vacancy for Band 6 QIS trained nurses on the Neonatal Unit at New Cross Hospital. The Neonatal teams offer a full range of specialist services in order to facilitate a timely, safe and effective patients’ journey throughout the health care system.

Main duties of the job

Successful candidates will join our friendly, supportive teams and be part of a team reflective of the acuity of the patient group. Regular staff engagement, feedback session and supportive ethos is actively practiced.

We are looking to recruit staff who are enthusiastic and committed to providing high quality evidence based care. We have 7 Intensive care cots, 7 high dependency cots and 12 special care cots.

We provide care to all new born babies within SSBC Neonatal Network from 23/40 weeks gestation. We are a cooling center for the west midland Neonatal Network. The post holder must be highly motivated and want to develop the service as well as their own personal skills and knowledge.

All applicants should be flexible providing 24 hour, 7 days a week service, working a shift pattern of days and nights to meet the needs of the service. We can consider flexible working and part time hours.

We have a Practice Education team, Quality and Experience Nurse team and SIM team to support your transition, ongoing education and support.

We advocate staff support and wellbeing with Professional Advocate Nurses and Clinical Psychologist.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

  • Neonatal Intensive Care Course
  • NMC Registered Nurse

Desirable

  • Mentorship

Skills/experience

Essential

  • 6 months post course experience on NNU

Desirable

  • Management Course

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 18 October 2026

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