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Main area
Neonates SCBU
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment will be considered for internal candidates – If you are successful after interview, you must obtain approval from your current line manager to accept the offer.)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (can be part time or full time)
Job ref
218-NM-B3-7752160
Employer
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
Town
Coventry
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/02/2026 23:59
Interview date
25/02/2026

Employer heading

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust logo

Neonatal Nursery Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 3

Job overview

Under supervision will provide optimum quality of care to babies and their families on the Neonatal Unit, offering support to trained staff, ensuring adherence to Trust policy at all times, including all aspects of child protection. Ensuring the safety of those in your care at all times.

Secondment will be considered for internal candidates – If you are successful after interview, you must obtain approval from your current line manager to accept the offer.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP. 

Main duties of the job

  1. Responsible for own actions, ensuring all patient interactions/observations are communicated to the appropriate healthcare practitioner, and documented appropriately.
  2. Undertake agreed clinical and non-clinical tasks, following training in defined practices. Ensure referral to the appropriate healthcare practitioner where appropriate.
  3. Take responsibility for care and welfare of a defined caseload of patients within your scope of practice. Able to recognise changes in a patient condition and take appropriate action.
  4. Promote the importance of structured developmental care and stimulation of neonates.
  5. Continuously assess, implement and evaluate treatment, using appropriate methods of care as agreed by a registered professional.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Act as link workers/cascade trainers to promote, arrange and audit a discreet service need within the speciality as designated, e.g. Infant feeding, manual handling or hand hygiene.
  • Demonstrate technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management e.g patient observations, equipment management and administration of agreed invasive tests/procedures and defined expanded clinical roles.
  • Promote choice, wellbeing and protection of all individuals, reporting any safeguarding concerns appropriately.
  • Contribute to the education of parents and carers as appropriate.
  • Supervise and provide mentorship to a small number of learners or junior staff.
  • Utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient data
  • Support the team in expected and unexpected clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need.
  • Support staff and patients exposed to difficult, sometimes distressing, situations arising in the clinical area demonstrating compassion and empathy.
  • Contribute to the reporting, handover and documentation of patient care maintaining confidentiality at all times.
  • Participate in research and audit as appropriate to ensure standards of patient care are monitored and improved.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description. 

Person specification

Qualifications

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Desirable criteria
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Experience

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Knowledge

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Skills

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Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident leaderImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Pathway to excellenceCare quality commission - GoodPregnancy Loss PledgeHeart Charter

Applicant requirements

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.

Application numbers

Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Katie Adams
Job title
Ward Manager SCBU TC
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02476 96665
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