Trainee Advanced Neonatal Practitioner – NICU: Sponsorship Available

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

Ensure the provision of a high standard of family-centred evidence-based nursing and medical care using advanced clinical skills from pre-admission to discharge of babies on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the Transitional Care Unit (TC), using patient assessment skills and making and delivering plans for care and treatment daily.

Support the midwifery team to deliver care to babies across the inpatient maternity services where assessment and care planning may be required. This post sits within the junior doctor tier of the medical roster.

Ensure the NICU Multi-disciplinary Team are involved in the systems that develop local and network policies, guidelines, action plans and benchmarks; developing the Neonatal Service within the Neonatal Network and Women and Children’s Division.

Ensure the Neonatal Network and Trust nursing strategy are implemented within the Neonatal Unit, providing evidence of integration into working practice with audit and advising the Divisional Leadership Team of service developments that can contribute towards the business plan.

Support the Practice Development Nurse to ensure neonatal staff are supported educationally to deliver family-centred, clinically effective care during the baby’s journey through the Neonatal Pathway.

Our Trust Values of Kindness, Wellness, Fairness guides appropriate behaviours of all colleagues and enable us all to be accountable for our actions.

 

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to undertake advanced neonatal nurse practitioner training on appointment to this post to ensure you are able to:Promote a high standard of advanced specialist nursing and medical care by initiating and co-ordinating the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of the holistic needs of babies, parents/carers and families through evidence based clinical practice following agreed policies, procedures and guidelines.Respond to calls from maternity services on the request of a midwife to assess the condition of a baby and provide specialist advice.

Person Specification

Qualificaions/training and professional development

Essential

  • Registered Nurse in Child or Adult, RSCN or Registered Midwife
  • Neonatal Specialist qualification
  • Post-graduate qualification in Advanced Neonatal Nursing
  • Teaching and Assessing Qualification
  • Child Protection Level 3

Desirable

  • MSc in Advanced Neonatal Practice

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of supervising and assessing learners

Desirable

  • Leadership experience

Skills, abillities and competencies

Essential

  • Ability to plan and prioritise care for neonatal patients
  • Understanding of the NMC Code of Conduct
  • Understanding of the safeguarding process
  • Understanding of the importance of the clinical governance framework
  • Advanced clinical skills

Desirable

  • Risk management awareness
  • Neonatal life support trainer

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).

Closing Date: 09 September 2025

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