Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH.  We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit.  We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.  

We love working here and think you will too.