Job summary
- Main area
- Neonatal
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 326-8168977-FF
- Employer
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Redhill
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum plus high cost allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Neonatal Junior Sister/Neonatal Developmental Junior Sister
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Are you considering a new leadership challenge in your career in Neonatal care?
We are offering a fixed term developmental band 6 post, full time hours are available. This post will be supported by our PD team and seniors' nurses on the ward to ensuring that you have bespoke orientation programme supporting your career progression on the unit. The developmental band 6 role would be ideal for a band 5 with the qualified in speciality to develop their skills and progress into the band 6 position. You will be supported via a bespoke developmental plan and receive input to complete set competencies over a six month period.
We would welcome your application for this exciting opportunity which has arisen to join our team at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
Our expanded and refurbished Level 2 Neonatal Unit within the Surrey, Sussex and Kent Neonatal Network has a total of 21 cots. We provide care for over 450 babies per year in our intensive, high dependency and special care nurseries alongside a busy Transitional Care area and a well-established Neonatal Outreach service.
Main duties of the job
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
- Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
- National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
- We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight. Please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Criteria
Essential criteria
- Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
- A complete and accurate application
- Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
- Evidence of essential experience for role
- Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
- Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
- Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
- Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vicky Kurzfeld
- Job title
- ITU / HDU Neonatal Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01737231765
- Additional information
Please do contact if you require any further information or an informal visit
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